Review: The War for Africa by Eeben Barlow

By Andrew Field One may ask, why review this book? Basically, the reviewer and book author had a brief, but minor, difference before last Christmas concerning an article published about Mozambique’s Islamic insurgency.  No matter the broadness and reliability of ones’ sources, the dodging, diving, false agendas and deception always seem to bubble to the …

Politicization of Policing: To Be or Not to Be

Policing in the 21 Century has no comparison to that of say the early 20th Century. Like the World, policing has changed a lot, and the emphasis is no longer on fighting crime, and ensuring law and order, but rather providing social services. There is plainly a swing away from those policing principals concerned with the combat of crime.

Review: A Brutal State of Affairs

By Andrew Field The genesis of “A Brutal State of Affairs” lies in Henrik Ellert’s original work “Rhodesian Front War”, but it is a vastly improved work in which Henrik is co-authored by Dennis Anderson. Both men were tangled in the murky world of intelligence as operatives in Ken Flower’s Central Intelligence Organisation (as members …