Eeben barlow biography examples

Private military company

Executive Outcomes is a private military company (PMC) founded in South Africa in by Eeben Barlow, a former lieutenant-colonel of the South African Defence Force.

It later became part of the South African-based holding company Strategic Resource Corporation.^[2] The company was reestablished in ^[3]

History

Background

In , following the conclusion of the South African Border War in Angola and Namibia, the apartheid regime was looking at broad cuts in its military personnel.

Eeben barlow biography examples

This initial drawdown accelerated rapidly as the apartheid system was dismantled in the early s. African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela demanded that then South African President Frederik Willem de Klerk dismantle some of the South African and South West African Special Forces units such as 32 Battalion and Koevoet.

One of these was the Civil Cooperation Bureau (CCB), a unit that carried out covert operations which included assass