Beyond Bombs, Bayonets And Bullets

Asymmetric warfare is like a thief who enters a house not through the door, window, or roof, but through the pipes that run into it. It sounds impossible, so the owner spends his money on the gate, CCTV, bulletproof doors, burglar bars, and armed guards. Since the thief cannot match the guards, he avoids them and comes through the one route nobody is watching: the pipes that run into the house. In Nigeria, those pipes are the forests that run from the North West to the South West. In this article, I will explain how artificial intelligence (AI) can help us block them, and what we need to do as a country to enhance our national security.
Where the pipes run
It is true that as a country...