Eeben Barlow's Military and Security Blog

A rising tide of violent crime, a lot of it perpetrated by children and teenagers—themselves often the victims of violence at home, or un...

It is very evident that there are people—and civil leaders—from across the political spectrum that are intent on ensuring that divisive p...

The book ‘Executive Outcomes: Against all Odds’ was finally signed off this morning and is due to go to print. Revising and updating ...

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 ...