Executive Outcomes

Executive Outcomes is the model on which all Private Military Companies (PMCs) operating in Iraq and Afghanistan are based. Founded by author Eeben Barlow in the early 1990s he originally offered courses in the intelligence to South Africa{u2019}s Special Forces and security work to De Beers{u2019} diamond mining industry. This was greatly expanded in 1993 when an oil company offered EO a contract to provide security for its staff while they recovered valuable drilling equipment stranded at the Angolan oil port of Soyo {u2013} after its capture by UNITA rebels. Barlow recruited ex-members of…