Soldier of Fortune Magazine The Journal of Professional Adventurers
The Canadian Military and the Canadian Weapons of WWI 18-pounder Field Gun Canadian War Museum text and photos A Dominant Weapon Heavy Howitzer At first, only the Germans appreciated the power of machine-guns when used on the defence from prepared positions with overlapping fields of fire. All armies would soon …
Read More »MAD GHOSTS IN THE TRIANGLE OF DEATH
Mad Ghosts Triangle of Death June 2015 452 By Chuck ConnonFrom the June 2015 issue of SOF June 16, 2006. Three US Army soldiers were assigned to protect an armored vehicle-launched bridge (AVLB) spanning a canal at the south end of Route Malibu. Their position was south of Baghdad, in …
Read More »AN AMERICAN GOLIATH IN AFGHANISTAN
The following is largely based on an interview with Contractor, MSG (Retired) Michael (Train) Beltran When Train arrived, the leadership was comprised of all Viet Nam vets, mostly SF. He spent eight years there and didn’t want to leave, but he had attended the assessment and selection course for First …
Read More »SHOK VALLEY: Green Berets Trapped
Staff Sgt. Ronald J. Shurer II (front row, far right), poses for a photo with members of his detachment near Pul-e Charkhi Afghan National Army Base, Nov. 6, 2007. (Photo Credit: Photo courtesy of Ronald J. Shurer II) By Mitch Weiss and Kevin MaurerFrom the April 2013 issue of SOF …
Read More »Pilot Col Bruce Crandall at LZ X-Ray: 22 missions into enemy fire
Among the most celebrated veterans of the Vietnam War, retired U.S. Army Colonel Bruce Crandall is best known for his actions of November 14, 1965, when he flew 22 missions in an unarmed helicopter into enemy fire to evacuate more than 70 wounded and bring ammunition and supplies to United …
Read More »SOF EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW With Author of ‘Executive Outcomes: Against all Odds’
SOF INTERVIEW WITH EEBEN BARLOW “EXECUTIVE OUTCOMES: AGAINST ALL ODDS” The book ‘Executive Outcomes: Against all Odds’ is a personal account of a company that gained fame and praise through its successes, and notoriety through its detractors. It is a story that cannot be told without including part of the founder, …
Read More »A Solemn Promise: Missing in Action
America has over 83,000 Missing in Action Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines. This film trailer gives us a poignant look at the families of these MIAs. All have sacrificed brothers, fathers and sons to America’s wars. Often these families go an entire lifetime without knowing how or where their loved …
Read More »Rhodesia’s Bush War: Attack on a Fireforce Base, Part II
Attack on a Rhodesian Fireforce Base. by Henri Lepetit all text photos copyright Henri Lepetit PART I Well into the Cold War after the US had fired its final angry shot in Vietnam Rhodesia became the last western democracy engaged in a hot one fighting for its survival against a …
Read More »SAS IN RHODESIA: ‘WE DARED TO WIN’ REVIEW
REVIEW: ‘WE DARED TO WIN’By Colonel Eeben Barlow Africa Unauthorized Hannes Wessels’ latest book ‘We Dared to Win’ is a book no serious student of war in Africa should be without. It chronicles the final years of a very special clandestine military unit, and a haemorrhaging and dying country. It …
Read More »Rhodesia’s Bush War: Attack on a Fireforce Base, Part I
Attack on a Rhodesian Fireforce Base. by Henri Lepetit, photos and text copyright Well into the Cold War after the US had fired its final angry shot in Vietnam Rhodesia became the last western democracy engaged in a hot one fighting for its survival against a communist dictatorship takeover. In …
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