THE WAR FOR AFRICA, conflict, crime, corruption and foreign interests

524pp., b/w & colour illus., maps, paperback, Revised Edition, Durban, (2020) 2024

Eeben Barlow on his experiences in Africa over two decades.

Eeben Barlow served as a lieutenant colonel and later as a temporary colonel  in several South African Defence Force units, including the Civil Cooperation Bureau (CCB). He was the founder and Chairman of Executive Outcomes and was Chairman of STTEO International Ltd from 2009-2020. In 2020, he reactivated Executive Outcomes. He is the author of Executive Outcomes: Against all the odds, Composite Warfare: The conduct of successful ground force operations in Africa, and Human Intelligence: Supporting composite warfare operations in Africa. He is a Research Fellow with the Faculty of Military Science at Stellenbosch University, and works with the Security Institute for Governance and Leadership in Africa.