This is because, if you as a soldier, takes an inventory of battle ahead and from the beginning, you find that the enemy has superior weaponry, and you begin to think that you have a 50-50 per cent chance of winning, then the morale will start going down.
What I am saying is that it is preferable that a soldier going to fight is first and foremost provided a basis for a high morale.
You make sure that yes the logistics, weaponry, the capacity on his side is higher than that of the enemy. This would enable him to continue advancing without stopping.You have to make to the Nigerian soldier understand that he has a superior weapon and tactics than that of his enemy. If he sees his Air Force, bombing, giving him cover, if he sees tanks moving, giving him cover, oh, he too would move.
The other aspect of his motivation is how do you take care of the casualty, whether dead or injured. There has to be good procedure of evacuation usually from the field up to the hospital.
There has to be a good procedure so that as soon as your soldiers are injured, they can be evacuated immediately. If they cannot be treated in the field hospital, they should be evacuated straight to the hospitals.
Also, the process of taking care of the benefits of the dead soldiers should also be analyzed. It is wrong that a soldier fighting, should have the feelings that if anything should go wrong, the members of his family would not be quickly attended to in terms of all his benefits.
There are things that kill morale.
I have said that I don’t belong to that camp that believes that the Nigerian Armed Forces or the Federal Government is conniving with the Boko Haram insurgents. I don’t share that view. I don’t believe in that.
But certainly I believe that there is low morale in the military
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