Talk:Benjamin Adekunle

Personal recollections

As a child I read his collection of Biafran war telexes. These telexes were nearly all requests, pleas and demands to the Lagos HQ for more ammunition. His military strategy appeared to be an amazing expenditure of ammunition. While telexes are not the complete story, they were intended to be used as the basis for a book on his life, and yet they showed little sign of any planning or strategy - just the reliance of his troops to progress forward. His self-proclaimed reputation as a warrior appears to be based more on luck, and his troops' bravery, than on anything else. This may also explain why, after his original marine landing and successes, he was later removed from command having failed to adequately exploit his war front.

The losers will always have something negative to say

Ben Adekunle was a brave soldier who didn't run in the face of opposition but ensured to crush his enemies without pity, he once shot a relative of his serving under his command in the foot when he tried to run from battle, this can't be said about persons like ojukwu who ran from battle after tossing sacrificing 3 million of his kinsmen in an unnecessary war, obviously descendants of this tribe who lost the war are still salty and bitter and would always have a condescending remark. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lackey98 (talk • contribs) 06:48, 24 March 2021 (UTC)