High standard of training can never be over emphasized. Most of the soldiers recruited during the war did not undergo enough depot training before being launched into battle. This resulted in many casualties on both sides. Most of them who survived the war had to be retrained. Members of the military must recognize that they depend more on the professional and technical competence and proficiency of their team members than on the formal authority structure. The maintenance of the highly sophisticated weapons and equipment procured during the war became very difficult. Most of them lasted for a few months in combat. Weapons were imported from all over the world and this led to non - standardization after the war. Most of them had to be phased out due to lack of spare parts. The quality of initiative in the individual must be allowed to develop. It is the most valued of all leadership qualities and virtues in the military. In this period of tremedious technological change, military leaders are confronted with almost perpetual change or crisis of organization especially in a fairly fluid combat situation. Whatever may be the technological achievement of our age and it's impact on military science, improvisation is still the keynote of the individual fighter and combat group. This aspect of military training must be emphasized in peacetime. This is particularly important in the developing nation like ours.
Failures arising from lack of adequate joint training became very obvious as a result of fratricide that occurred during the war. On many occasions fire support request made to the Air Force never came, and when it did come, it was sometimes on own friendly positions. Supply from the air that became necessary atimes and were tried often fell on the enemy side.
It is commonly said that an army fights on its stomach. Logistics won the war for Nigeria. If the Biafrans had half of the resources Nigeria had, the story might be different. The Biafrans were better organized and managed the meager resources available to them more effectively. The Nigerian Army learnt a big lesson from this. The Army school of Logistics was upgraded and well funded to train and produce high quality logisticians for the Army after the war.