Eeben Barlow's Military and Security Blog

The military strategy is an intelligence-driven, intellectual process that results in possible future or definite action. The waging of ...

Fighting an apparently elusive enemy during COIN operations can be very frustrating, especially for the men in the field. The frustration ...

I have had numerous calls, mails and posts asking about the progress of my planned book on strategy and tactics. Unfortunately, I have not h...

I have noticed a disturbing trend in today’s counter insurgency (COIN) orientated conflicts – IFV’s are being deployed as MPVs/MRAPs and vis...

Developing the strategy to fight an insurgency in a third country should be based primarily on the assessment whether that conflict is in th...

Another bit of blatant advertising – an abridged extract from my in-process book Techniques of War (a working title). If we arrive, as our f...

( Parts of this posting are from my upcoming book “The Techniques of War”, albeit as a very condensed version. Please note that this is NOT ...

Looking at how modern wars are being fought, I have come to suspect that “strategy” has somehow been replaced with “gadgetry”. There seems t...

I recall having to study the principles of war – along with those of the different phases of war – during my various military courses, espec...