TY Buratai: A Life in Strategic Innovative Leadership
T he office of Chief of Army Staffin Nigeria carries one of the heaviest responsibilities in national life. Beyond the constitutional duty of defending the country's sovereignty and territorial integrity, the Army is repeatedly drawn into internal security emergencies, regional threats, asymmetric warfare and the daily task of helping to hold together a vast and complex federation.
TY Buratai: A Life in Strategic and Innovative Leadership tells the story of Lieutenant General Tukur Yusufu Buratai, Nigeria's 24th Chief of Army Staff, and the military institution he helped reshape in a period of grave national insecurity. The biography examines his life, formation and command through the lenses of strategy, reform, innovation and operational pressure. It captures the transformation of the Nigerian Army under his watch, its repositioning for conventional and asymmetric warfare, and the wider national significance of military leadership in a country where security remains inseparable from unity, stability and state survival.