Troop disobedience within the armed forces: Implications for national security

Abstract

The military institution is structured in a manner that is meant to promote smooth flow of orders and instructions for implementation.  Perhaps this is premised on the fact that time and disciplines are two critical variables that drive the military culture. Thus, this paper  finds that in the theatre of operations, poor supply of equipment and lack of basic force projection and protection indices for soldiers  could result in open or „passive obedience‟ where troops‟ morale are either dampened or become an endless test on their patriotism  and an albatross in their quest to defend the territorial integrity and citizens of their nation. This paper argues that for the best possible  outcomes of combat efficiency to be gotten from field combatants, there must be an availability of the basic requirements that would aid  the field combatants in attaining their strategic objectives. Furthermore, the paper drives the position that failure in the preceding areas  will only portend extensive threats to the country‟s national security. The paper relied mostly on secondary sources available in extant  literature.