My book, &#;Executive Outcomes: Against all Odds&#; will undergo a revision, a re-edit and then be republished sometime later this year. The book will also be updated with new material.
The book was initially published by Galago. However, since Peter Stiff&#;s untimely passing, the rights to the book reverted back to me.
Peter was the only publisher (both locally and abroad) that was prepared to publish the book as too many considered it &#;inopportune&#; or &#;not politically correct&#;. I will forever remain grateful to him for his publishing courage.
Some wanted me to remove the names of their journalist friends I named as disinformation agents and outright liars&#;or of the duplicity of the then South African government. Other publishing houses informed me that the book &#;was not in the public interest&#;. Some simply ignored my initial manuscript.
Several book stores steadfastly refused to carry it on their shelves once it was published.
At that time, it was apparent to me that the book simply did not match the narrative that had been so successfully, albeit nefariously driven by several local and foreign intelligence services and media houses. Fo
Several &#;experts&#; on Executive Outcomes (EO) have again recently surfaced and are working hard at continuing their disinformation campaign against the company &#; despite the company having closed its doors many years ago.
I am still amazed at how those who call so loudly for peace work so hard at trying to prevent it. But I also know the aim is a feeble attempt to discredit me in the hopes that African governments will cease talking to me. As mentioned before, war is bad for business and the longer the flames can be fuelled in Africa, the more money is to be made by some who claim they want a &#;peaceful Africa&#;. Their way of achieving this &#;peaceful Africa&#; is by dispensing bad advice, selling obsolete and/or irrelevant equipment and by supporting both sides of a conflict.
When it became known that STTEP had been contracted to train a Special Operations Group (SOG) for the Ugandan armed forces (UPDF), all hell seemed to break loose again. Back were those who felt that I and whatever company I was now part of had to be stopped. To achieve this, the lines had to be blurred between EO and STTEP and create the perception that it is the same company.
Tweets were gene
Executive Outcomes: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth
Introduction
The birth of Executive Outcomes (EO) in and the figure of its founder, Lieutenant-Colonel Eeben Barlow, represent a watershed period in the history of PMCs. Indeed, the company’s military accomplishments in less than a decade of operativity are widely celebrated. The ability to organise and rapidly deploy an elite fighting force with nearly autonomous capabilities revolutionised the understanding of military providers and operations in Africa and beyond:
“[EO is] with the possible exception of the South African army, the most deadly and efficient army operating in sub-Saharan Africa today”
(Eeben Barlow).
However, besides its formidable military effectiveness, EO has been deeply controversial, especially in South Africa. Executive Outcomes and Chairman Eeben Barlow truly capture the complexity of the private military industry. The firm was fiercely criticised both at home and abroad while, at the same time, local populations and humanitarian groups showed appreciation for its success (source). In the end, after more than two decades, Executive Outcomes has recently been revived by its legendary f
As a continent, Africa presents her armies with a vast, dynamic and multidimensional operating environment. It has numerous complex and diverse ethnic, religious, cultural and tribal interests and loyalties, along with many multifaceted threat-drivers coupled to varied and infrastructure-poor terrain plus vast climatic variations. The continent is, furthermore, characterized by numerous half-won conflicts and wars fought by incorrectly structured, inadequately trained and ill-equipped armies. For many reasons, these forces have difficulty adapting to the complex, demanding and rapidly changing environments they do battle in. Similarly, the armies have difficulty in decisively defeating the various threats they face. Many of these problems stem from the fact that numerous modern-day African armies are merely clones of the armies established by their once-colonial masters, their Cold War allies or their new international allies. Many of the principles and tactics, techniques and procedures they were - and still are - being taught relate to fighting in Europe and not in Africa. Some of these concepts are not even relevant to Africa.
This book is intended as a guide and tex
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