Eeben Barlow's Military and Security Blog

When the political leadership commits the armed forces to a conflict or a war, one would assume that the “homework” was done ... and that th...

Published by Security Solutions International (SSI), the Counter Terrorist magazine is the Official Journal of the Homeland Security Profess...

Whereas there can be no doubt that Rules of Engagement (RoE) are important in determining how, when, where and against who armed force shall...

Many folks have written asking why I have been so slow in updating the blog. Being unable to update it on a daily basis has been a concern t...

Several people have, over the years, alerted me to the fact that a company known as Northbridge Services Group (NSG) are either claiming or ...

Communications operations are conducted at two distinct yet inter-related levels: The strategic level and the tactical level. At the strateg...

When Sun Tzu wrote “ The supreme act of war is to subdue the enemy without a fight ” approximately 25 centuries ago, did he see the neutrali...