Eeben Barlow

Eeben Barlow
BornNorthern Rhodesia
(present-day Zambia)
RankLieutenant-Colonel
UnitSpecial Forces 32 Battalion and Civil Cooperation Bureau
Commandssecond-in-command of Special Forces 32 Battalion
Known forFounder of Executive Outcomes

Lt-Col. Eeben Barlow is a veteran of the South African Defence Force and was the second-in-command of its elite special forces 32 Battalion Reconnaissance Wing.[1] He later served in Military Intelligence as an agent handler and later as an operative and region commander in the ultra-secret Civil Cooperation Bureau (CCB), a covert division of Special Forces. He founded the private military contractor (PMC) Executive Outcomes (EO) in 1989, and was involved in providing counter-insurgency as well as peacekeeping forces in Africa and Asia.[2][3] Barlow resigned from Executive Outcomes in July 1997 and the company closed its doors on 31 December 1998.[4] Barlow is the former chairman of STTEP, but also lectures on military matters at defence colleges and universities.[5][6] Some consider Eeben Barlow the grandfather of modern private military companies as the founder of Executive Outcomes.[7][8] Shannon Sedgwick Davis stated in her book about an alliance to stop the atrocities of the Joseph Kony of the Lord's Resistance Army (the first group of persons indicted by International Criminal Court), "Eeben Barlow and the trainers, your sweat and sacrifice translated to lives saved, thank you."[9][10]

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  2. ^ "The War Business | Journeyman Pictures". www.journeyman.tv. Retrieved 2022-12-21.
  3. ^ Select Committee on Foreign Affairs Minutes of Evidence (1 August 2002). "CHAPTER 2—THE PRIVATE MILITARY COMPANIES PERSPECTIVE". UK Parliament. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
  4. ^ Mercenaries : an African security dilemma. Abdel-Fatau Musah, Kayode Fayemi. London: Pluto Press. 2000. p. 194. ISBN 978-1-84964-039-8. OCLC 51724978.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  5. ^ Murphy, Jack (2020-05-23). "Eeben Barlow Speaks Out (Pt. 1): PMC and Nigerian Strike Force Devastates Boko Haram". SOFREP. Retrieved 2022-12-21.
  6. ^ "STTEP INTERNATIONAL". www.sttepi.com. Retrieved 2022-12-21.
  7. ^ Davis, Shannon Sedgwick (2019). To stop a warlord : my story of justice, grace, and the fight for peace (First ed.). New York. p. 102. ISBN 978-0-8129-9592-3. OCLC 1047524666.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  8. ^ Olivier, Andrew (2013). Organisational Design : What Your University Forgot to Teach You /Andrew Olivier. [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris Corp. p. 116. ISBN 978-1-4771-4889-1. OCLC 840535366.
  9. ^ Davis, Shannon Sedgwick (2019). To stop a warlord : my story of justice, grace, and the fight for peace (First ed.). New York. p. 308. ISBN 978-0-8129-9592-3. OCLC 1047524666.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  10. ^ "Ugandan top rebel leader indicted". 2005-10-07. Retrieved 2022-12-21.