Soldier of Fortune Magazine The Journal of Professional Adventurers
By: Daniel Kelly From the October, 2013 issue of SOF Throughout history, the guerrilla fighter and the war that he wages have been surrounded by a certain measure of fascination, disdain and even romance. From the Special Forces of today back to the legendary Sun Tzu of ancient China, guerrilla …
Read More »FBI Gotcha: Public Enemy Number One, John Dillinger and The Brady Gang That “would make Dillinger look like a piker.”
Transcripts below full story of the Brady Gang During the latter part of the year 1935, Alfred Brady (pictured), James Dalhover, and Clarence Lee Shaffer, Jr., formed a coalition for the purpose of engaging in criminal activities that later were to make them the objects of one of the greatest …
Read More »The Son Also Rises: Jack Hemingway, Adventures in the Army, A POW Camp and the OSS
Jack in uniform with his 2 half-brothers at Club de Cazadores del Cerro, Cuba,194 The Son Also Rises: Jack Hemingway From the files of the CIA Ernest Hemingway was one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, capturing the quintessential essence of the lost generation. His works are …
Read More »NVA General to SOG Recon Team: We suffered 90 percent casualties. Part 2
NVA General to SOG Recon Team: We suffered 90 percent casualties By Tilt Stryker Meyer SOF.Black.Part 2 Before ST Alabama could celebrate, the NVA charged again. Three more dead NVA were added to the cadaver wall. Silence dominated the battlefield. No bird chirps, no speaking, no noise of any type. …
Read More »ONE MILLION STEPS
By Bing West From the December 2014 issue of SOF The Setting Sangin was the most violent district in Afghanistan, a remote farmland in southern Helmand Province at the far south of the country. Beginning in 2006, British forces defended the government compound next to the district market, while the …
Read More »Jordan’s Prince Hussein and His Majesty King Abdullah II Live Fire Combat Drills
Prince Hussein along with His Majesty King Abdullah II during live ammunition training at the conclusion of a series of exercises recently celebrating the Prince’s 24th Birthday party.
Read More »Brig. Gen. James M. Stewart
Lt. Gen. Valin, Chief of Staff, French Air Force, awards the Croix De Guerre with Palm to Col. Jimmy Stewart for exceptional services in the liberation. (U.S. Air Force photo) On March 22, 1941, Jimmy Stewart was drafted into the U.S. Armed Forces. He was assigned to the Army Air …
Read More »3-4 Cavalry, Blasting Away During the Tet Offensive
Army SPC Dwight Birdwell Via Cherokee Phoenix Bob,Remember the article I wrote a while back in SOF about Dwight Birdwell and his actions as a tank commander during the relief of Tans Nhut AB during TeT of ’68 wherein he was put in for the MOH by his commanding officer, …
Read More »Barry Sadler Talks to Jimmy Dean: SOF and Sadler
Barry Sadler and SOF ABOVE VIDEO Jimmy Dean talks with Sgt Barry Sadler about his tour in Vietnam, and how he feels about the Draft Dodgers. Then Barry sings SOF: Barry Sadler was an enlisted man and a Green Beret. He was a special forces medic while In Vietnam …
Read More »Retaking the Koidu Diamond Fields From Executive Outcomes, Against All Odds.
Chapter 28 Retaking the Koidu Diamond Fields By Eeben Barlow Anyone planning to fight a successful armed anti-government or terrorist campaign ought to know that one of the primary objectives (apart from causing mass enemy casualties and loss of materiel) is the denial of funds to the rebel or terrorist …
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