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The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen. Lucky Irabor, has restated his commitment to promoting joint operation planning toward tackling the multifarious contemporary security challenges bedevilling the nation.
Irabor stated this at the opening of the 2022 Defence Headquarters Joint Operation Exercise (JOPEX) tagged; “Exercise Sky Lock’’ for participants of the Army, Naval and Air Force War Colleges on Tuesday in Abuja.
He said the idea of JOPEX for war colleges was conceived to enhance collaboration among the services during the planning and execution phases of operations.
The CDS said the second edition of JOPEX was built around contemporary, realistic and real-time security events in Nigeria and beyond.
He said the exercise marked the culmination of several months of significant efforts made toward developing the skills of participants of the three war colleges in operational art, design and decision-making process among others.
In his words, “It is certainly another milestone in the professional military education trajectory of the Nigerian military in the quest to properly equip our officers for present and future assignments.
“As think tanks of the Armed Forces of Nigeria, the war colleges are indeed the laboratories and incubation centres for the production of military operational level plans.
“They are also for measurement of performance and effectiveness of subsisting plans with a view to revising them for enhanced effectiveness.
“To this end, the product of this exercise will form part of the military strategic decisions for some ongoing and future operations.’’
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According to the CDS, this underscores the significance of this exercise and the resources committed to its actualisation.
“Today’s event, therefore, demonstrates the ability of the war colleges to ensure they maintain an enduring tradition that would enshrine joint planning culture at the military operational leadership level.
“This culture is indeed essential to the development of operational level capacity toward tackling the multifarious contemporary security challenges and for future military operations,” he said.
Irabor said the complex 21st-century security environment had huge implications not only for the military but also for all sectors of governance and society.
He expressed optimism that the knowledge, skills and capacities that the participants had acquired in operational art would enhance their professional judgment in a joint operating environment.
The CDS said the knowledge would also remain an indelible resource of their problem-solving and decision-making loops.
According to the CDS, considering this, participants will be doing themselves and the country a lot of good by keeping the acquired skills up to date through continuous learning.
He urged them to keep an open mind and take calculated risks, adding that it would be key to their effective functioning in the contemporary complex security environment.
