A Life in Strategic Leadership

Title: TY Buratai, A Life in Strategic Leadership
Author: Udu Yakubu
Year of Publication: 2023
ISBN 978-978-792-708-3
Pages: 477 + vii

TY BURATAI: A Life in Strategic Leadership
The role of the chief of army staff in contemporary Nigeria is one that brings with it a
huge, overwhelming responsibility of primarily catering for the enormous and
mounting security needs of the country.

The fundamental purpose of the Nigerian military in safeguarding the nations
sovereignty and territorial integrity is almost often taken for granted. Yet, it is terrain
of daily active engagement for the services. Beyond constitutional requirements and
on a most regular basis, internal security issues are thrown up in various parts of the
country, and the army is almost constantly on red alert to keep the nation safe. It is
an onerous task that also significantly implies keeping Nigeria together. For a country
as diverse as Nigeria in terms of ethnicity, religion, socio-economic and political
orientations, and other demographic variables including the complicating vagaries
of split personalities in a cyber age, the challenges of being chief of army staff in
Nigeria have multiplied in numbers and types.

However, TY Buratai: A life in strategic leadership, engages in the story of how
Nigeria’s 24 th army chief successfully combated some of the security issues that
plagued the nation. In just over five years, the Nigerian army experienced such
transformations that raised its position astronomically in the global rank of modern,
professional armies. It was also critically re-positioned as a dominant combat force
for conventional and asymmetric warfare. This biography tells the story of the life
and service of Lt. General Tukur Yusufu Buratai through prism of military and
leadership strategies and such innovations that brought unprecedented
development to the Nigerian army, and the nation.