Eeben Barlow's Military and Security Blog

On 29 April 2009, the BBC ran an interesting article on the DRC. Who else could be the main actors in this story but the UN’s result-lacking...

Living in South Africa, I watch with morbid fascination at how the US and China are racing to recapture Africa – the US with AFRICOM and Chi...

My previous posting on the media and PMCs drew a lot of very interesting comments and suggestions by the visitors to the blog. It also elici...

The Private Military Company (PMC) will always find itself under attack from certain segments of the media. Whereas some of the attacks will...

In a world where unemployment is on the rise, financial institutions are in melt-down and an ever-decreasing ability of law enforcement agen...

Despite the so-called war on drugs, the world is seeing a rapid rise in illegal drug production, drug trafficking and above all, an increase...

I recently had the opportunity to visit a South African weapons-developer who has designed and built a 20mm Personal Assault Weapon (PAW). T...