Eeben Barlow's Military and Security Blog

The Military Academy is an educational training unit of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) that houses the Faculty of Milit...

The phrase “If we don’t know where we are going, we can be sure we will never know how to get there” essentially refers to an absence of ...

As no two fragile or failed states are the same, there can be no universal template to bring about positive change or a reversal from the b...

  There has been a dramatic increase in “Save the Rhino” activities and programmes – very few of them actually aimed at saving the rhino...

A lot of people have asked my thoughts on fragile and failed states. I believe the following with regard to fragile and failed states: ...

And now for something completely different… I have had repeated requests over the years to develop programmes or workshops to share m...

Numerous people have asked me for my thoughts regarding revolutionary governments. Indeed, Africa has seen numerous governments come ...