Jim Hooper's article on "Executive Outcomes"

[Steak-Sauce]

Greetings,

Interesting link ahead for all who want to read up on Executive Outcomes:

http://www.jimhooper.co.uk/text4.html

"Story 1" features a 12-page article written by Hooper for the World Air Power Journal, and it's mainly about EO's use of air assets in Sierra Leone and Angola.

Enjoy!

[Ordie]

I did some research on these guys in college.
The Sierra Leone deal was very surreal and would make a great Hollywood Movie.
They got into trouble in Papua New Guinea. The local military revolted because their jobs were being outsourced by EO.

The coup leader Valentine Strasser, eventually ended up in the UK for university but dropped out and worked as a bouncer.

[Hellfish]

Always interested in stories like this, thanks. I expect the Somali Air Force will be run by an EO-like operation when it gets off the ground...

[[WDW]Megaraptor]

The coup leader Valentine Strasser, eventually ended up in the UK for university but dropped out and worked as a bouncer.

I believe he is now unemployed and lives with his mom.

[kevlar308]

UK "true crime" movies have forced me to believe that all bouncers are in fact, muscle for rhyming gangsters.

[BLUE THOR]

EO did good work, shame they tread on too many governments toes in the process, or they might have been around longer

[TheOrangeMan]

EO did good work, shame they tread on too many governments toes in the process, or they might have been around longer

I'm not familiar with EO's history. Can you clarify on this?

PS: Apparently, Eeben Barlow maintains a blog>>

http://eebenbarlowsmilitaryandsecuri...ogspot.com.br/

[angra]

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They got into trouble in Papua New Guinea. The local military revolted because their jobs were being outsourced by EO.
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Not trying to sound to pedantic, but it was Sandline International that technically got into trouble in PNG. Sandline had sub contracted Executive Outcomes to do a lot of the "work" but the tourble and subsequent legal actions revolved around Sandline not EO

[Dominique]

Not trying to sound to pedantic, but it was Sandline International that technically got into trouble in PNG. Sandline had sub contracted Executive Outcomes to do a lot of the "work" but the tourble and subsequent legal actions revolved around Sandline not EO

A lot of the same guys behind Sandline were also involved in the forming/funding of EO. And quite a few of them ended up over at AEGIS.

[Dinges]

I'm not familiar with EO's history. Can you clarify on this?

They embarrassed the UN , badly. They achieved in short spaces of time and with relatively low expenditure , what the UN could not with billions and countries's armies at hand.

Granted they had different ROE , but they made the UN doctrine look piss-poor and ineffectual.

[Dinges]

Another article that was scanned and uploaded by YANKEEBOB if I remember correctly:

[TheOrangeMan]

They embarrassed the UN , badly. They achieved in short spaces of time and with relatively low expenditure , what the UN could not with billions and countries's armies at hand.

Granted they had different ROE , but they made the UN doctrine look piss-poor and ineffectual.

That's real shame. From what I could gather from those articles, they seemed like an extremely competent and well trained fighting force. And to think that they could be doing wonders in Africa today if they were still active. They could be serving as advisers building up military forces in Somaliland, or they could be in South Sudan tearing the janjaweed to pieces and teaching those bastards in North Sudan some proper manners.

[Dinges]

That's real shame. From what I could gather from those articles, they seemed like an extremely competent and well trained fighting force. And to think that they could be doing wonders in Africa today if they were still active. They could be serving as advisers building up military forces in Somaliland, or they could be in South Sudan tearing the janjaweed to pieces and teaching those bastards in North Sudan some proper manners.

I admire your optimism. But alas , Africa and optimism , well is not destined.