Trump's intensified airstrikes in Nigeria are strategically pointless

On May 19, a press release from the Nigerian military proclaimed that, in a joint operation with the United States, it dealt a “devastating blow” to ISIS and “eliminated” a senior leader and more than 170 fighters. The press release followed a few days after the announcement by President Donald Trump that “brave American forces and the Armed Forces of Nigeria flawlessly executed a meticulously planned and very complex mission to eliminate the most active terrorist in the world from the battlefie...