Galen Fries

Nigeria is running out of runway, and every day Washington hesitates is another day armed groups tighten their grip on a country too strategically important to watch slide into chaos.

The U.S. military is using cheap Chinese-made drones as live targets in Florida to give troops realistic counter-drone training and speed up new technology development.

The British SAS and Australian SASR ended 2025 balancing heavy operational demand with ongoing scrutiny tied to past misconduct investigations. Both units are pushing ahead with modernization, tighter accountability, and updated training to stay effective in a security environment shaped by hybrid warfare and rising regional tensions.

Atlas Lion showed that AI can replace a crowd of observer controllers and still give commanders a sharper, doctrine-based read on how ready their Civil Affairs teams are for large-scale combat.

When gunmen can storm a girls’ school before dawn, kill an educator, and haul teenagers into the forest without immediate consequence, something fundamental has broken in Nigeria’s security contract with its citizens.

Trinity of Chaos is what happens when three already dangerous crews fuse their social engineering, cloud access, and massive credential troves into a single profit driven extortion machine aimed straight at the modern enterprise.

Christians are dying in Nigeria, but so are Muslims and countless other civilians, and the bloodshed has less to do with a holy war than with a government that has let the country slip into the hands of jihadists, militias, and land-grabbers.

In Darfur — where al-Fashir’s fall has tightened the RSF’s chokehold — women are being hunted, starved, and silenced as systematic rape and engineered famine are wielded as weapons while the world looks away.

In a decisive, intelligence-driven sweep across six northern states, the Nigerian Air Force’s synchronized precision strikes under Operations Hadin Kai and Fanjan Yamma shredded insurgent logistics and eliminated senior fighters — a clear tactical win that nonetheless underlines how airpower, however effective, cannot by itself cure the deeper social and economic rot that fuels the violence.

Prepping isn’t panic theater—it’s common-sense responsibility: know your risks, pick a rally point, pack a waterproof bug-out tote for family (and pets), set clear triggers, and practice it until when your kid asks “what do we do now?” your answer is a calm, confident “follow me.”

Forged by colonial lines that ignored its people, Nigeria now strains under insurgency, corruption, and oil politics as the military grinds on multiple fronts and voices like Ojy Okpe refuse to look away.

From Darfur to Khartoum, Sudan’s war reads like the worst kind of rerun: militias rebranded, generals trading uniforms for power, and civilians paying in blood while the world shrugs.