Eeben Barlow's Military and Security Blog

My sincere thanks to everyone for the interest shown in the Executive Outcomes reprint as well as the encouragement I got to complete it, ...

In the aftermath of 9/11, the bread and butter of the defense industry shifted in many ways from focusing on big-ticket Cold War ite...

My book, ‘ Executive Outcomes: Against all Odds ’ will undergo a revision, a re-edit and then be republished sometime later this year. T...

As a young officer, I had little to no clue what our doctrine was or indeed even what ‘doctrine’ really entailed. I viewed it as one of ...

The current crisis in command many African armies are faced with can be traced back to the manner in which current and future commanders...

To say that I enjoyed myself at the recent Rooiplaas gathering would be somewhat of an understatement… Conceived by Nico Beneke and ably...

I count myself fortunate that I was able to lay my hands on a copy of Tom Fulton’s book ‘ Into the Vortex’ . Despite the many books writt...