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...

Some of my Nigerian friends and I were discussing the situation in Mali and the apparent lack of good advice, intelligence, strategy, tra...

The armed forces can, despite their relative strengths in terms of manpower, firepower and other resources, fail at effectively neutralis...

I have sadly, over the past few months, been unable to maintain my blog as I would have wanted to. I have also been unable to respond to ...

The recent passing of Lt Gen R (Witkop) Badenhorst, SSAS, SD, SM, MMM came as a great shock to me. I served under Gen Badenhorst when...

I was pointed to the Wikipedia pages on Executive Outcomes and it seems rather odd that Sterling Corporate Services has now been placed o...

My apologies to all followers for taking so long to respond to your comments as well as my tardiness in posting something new. I have...