Eeben BarlowEeben Barlow served as a lieutenant-colonel in the pre-1994 South African Defence Force (SADF) in conventional, clandestine and covert units. He was the founder and chairman of Executive Outcomes (EO) where he trained SADF Special Forces in covert oprations. He has worked in South America, the Far East and Africa training and mentoring armies and assisting law enforcement agencies and intelligence services with the development of strategies. He is the chairman of STTEP International Ltd, a company that supports predominately African governments whom he assists with the development of military strategies and operational designs. He has held the rank of general in three African armies and one Far Eastern army. He regularly lectures at defence universities and staff colleges in Africa. He has also been a panellist at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), De Balie in the Netherlands, Centre for Chinese Studies (Stellenbosch University, SA) and several other European cities where he has delivered papers and/or lectured on military and security matters in Africa. He is the author of the best-selling book Executive Outcomes: Against all Odds and is a contributing editor to the Counter Terrorist magazine. Read More Read Less