Eeben Barlow's Military and Security Blog

I remember clearing for mines around a young soldier who had just stepped on an anti-personnel mine. His broken body had been dragged him...

We cannot dominate the battlefield if we cannot control it. The Area of Operations (AO) is greatly influenced by the terrain and the pr...

When Sun Tzu wrote about the need to know both the enemy and yourself, his words held an importance many nowadays seem to simply ignore. I a...

In a world of war and conflict, why is it that we continue to be so reactive? Is it because we do not develop decent, workable strategies ba...