Boko Haram insurgency has presented a peculiar theatre of unconventional warfare. The combat dynamics of the belligerents have oscillated between the asymmetries of hard and soft violence. While the insurgents have been able to sustain their violent campaign mainly through tactical opportunism based on irregular strategies, including suicide terrorism, the government forces have been locked in intractable counter-insurgency operations where their military might has often been demystified and overwhelmed by the irregular strategies of the insurgents. This has resulted in a precarious and protracted counter-insurgency scenario in which the dynamics of violence tend to have put the government forces under sapping pressure, whilst the insurgent forces have prevailed in an asymmetrical advantage. The way out of this intractable violence is for the government to be pragmatic in its current combat-offensive counter-insurgency by adopting a hybrid approach that is capable of countering both the military and non-military dimensions of the terror-insurgency conundrum.

博科圣地组织的叛乱组织提出了一场特殊的非常规战争战场。交战者的战斗动力在硬暴力和软暴力的不对称之间摇摆。尽管叛乱分子能够主要通过基于包括自杀性恐怖主义在内的非常规战略的战术机会主义来维持其暴力行动，但政府军却被困在棘手的平叛行动中，在这种情况下，他们的军事力量常常被非常规战略所迷惑和淹没叛乱分子。这导致了动乱，旷日持久的叛乱局势，其中暴力的动态趋向于使政府部队承受沉重的压力，而叛乱部队则以不对称优势占了上风。