Eeben Barlow's Military and Security Blog

I was hoping to start 2014 with a posting on conflict and the dangers of a blinkered approach to counter-insurgency. Instead, I have to wa...

I took exception to Prof Blattman’s blog entry on EO where he lied three times in two sentences. I also sent him a copy of my blog posti...

I wrote this piece in response to “Mark from Utah” who sent me a private mail lambasting both myself and STTEP. Unfortunately, he has ye...

I have never been able to understand why some people feel the need to claim an association with a company or with people they have never me...

Having been away for a couple of days, Matt ( www.feraljundi.com ) alerted me to the fact that the New York Times had finally responded to m...

Subsequent to my previous posting on the blog exposing people and companies posing as EO or claiming to represent me, I have received numero...

It seems that the private military industry has become a prime target of negative media reporting and that many so-called “specialist journa...

According to the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of a Child, any person who has not yet reached the age of 15 years and partakes in an arme...

An article published on the website Africa Crisis on 17 December 2008 ( http://www.africancrisis.co.za/Article.php?ID=40085& ) was sent ...

I was somewhat surprised to receive an article titled “China’s capitalist gangster” written by Jody Ray Bennett and published by the Interna...

It is astonishing that no-one in the United Nations (UN) has the moral courage to step forward and admit their shameful behaviour and subseq...