Executive Outcomes

I am one of the people interviewed for, and featured in, Force Provision a straightforward documentary about the commercial provision of defense and security services as this relates to policy, military institutions, public consent of foreign engagements and necessary responsible oversight.

Allie Tyler, who directed and produced the film, provided me the outtakes of the interview with me and has given me permission to post them online.

So here is the third, in which I discuss Executive Outcomes.

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News & Politics

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• PSC
• private
• security
• contractors

[nidan1209]

Woolfscout,

I did read Eeben's book and if you ask him he will tell you that he has no problem with my writings and comments on EO

[nidan1209]

I tend to be on the side of those who believe EO generally did a better job than it is given credit for.

But unless I had a stroke EO hardly worked in all, or almost all, of Africa.

[griffonsa]

I was part of EO and Sandline, and proud of it!!! We were needed were other institutions failed!!! We did what the UN couldnt do, cheaper and faster! Someone had to do the "dirty work", and ofcourse, not country wanted to be blamed in case things got out of hands. Much easier to blame PMC's!

[nidan1209]

See message I just sent you. I don't think EO did dirty work; quite the contrary.

David

[otsuguairomas]

Not services for nothing--they were a business (& Southern Cross, and other subsidiaries still are). The EO foray into Angola was backed by DeBeers. I don't know about Sierra Leone, but I guess a similar arrangement. My problem is with your dismissal of critics of EO. EO did their work "well", but the whole idea of ex-SOF people taking their skills to the "enemy" (Hooper cites EO's S. African critics) is disconcerting; + doing it for VERY mercenary reasons ("blood diamonds") deserves criticism.

[nidan1209]

I don't dismiss all criticisms of EO. But much, if not most, of what has been written about them in the past has been false. If someone has something accurate and critical about them more power to him or her.

[SYCOTIX666]

EO has sum of the best trained soldiers in the world i dont see why people from other countrys than south africa exept that

[sass225]

@AdemJashari56 To stop helpless people from being slaughtered seems a good reason to me. not to mention establishing order were none exist. as I understand it in angola the orginal concern was millions of dollars worth of oil drilling equipment. The Un should have stayed out of the way and let them do there job. its ashame that such a force got disolved cause generaly the UN ignores Africa dafar and rwanda for example the un could have done more but didnt

[klunk5150]

Everything I have ever heard about EO tells me that they were more capable than most nations armies. They went into Sierra Leone and did what nobody wanted or cared to do and when they kicked ass it scared the shit out of Bill Clinton and the UN. Maybe they figured they might be next on EO's list.

[woolfscout]

Too Many socalled experts on EO, rather go and buy Eeben Barlow`s book called executive outcomes. and read what the founder of the company writes.

Well done Eeben and Lafras you and your men made a diffrence.

[Umaxen]

Way too much talk. EO's are needed to control sub-humanity on a worldwide basis. You have to agree that, in general, Africa is run by groups of military leaders who kill the opposition by means of rape, chopping off arms and legs, blood letting and burning people alive. Killing these thugs is an appropriate means of beginning to rebuild these nations. Law, education, industry and an armed population are the next logical steps. Executive Outcomes should be revered by all decent human beings.

[SuperChuckles007]

@SuperChuckles007

I need to correct myself and use EO, not EA. My mistake.

[SuperChuckles007]

He makes the case for EA being a firm that did it's job, but he also tries to say that EA had a a hand in the atrocities that the locals committed, which they most definitely did not. EA did what they were paid to do, and they did it well, efficiently and quicker than any UN force could have done.

[joshmc0300]

check out sandrail international. they are still around

[Dipukas1]

you can't, you smuck! because EO was dissolved on 31 December 1998. And even if it wasn't they wouldn't take a dumbass such as yourself. My father was part of SADF, so I would know