Soldier of Fortune Magazine The Journal of Professional Adventurers
By Henri Lepetit for SOF Four years after Rhodesia was handed over to that homicidal maniac Mugabe through notoriously farcical elections, I found myself whiling away the time in Durban Natal, South Africa. It ought to be remembered that a large portion of the hapless – and, contemptibly irrelevant to …
Read More »KAREN REBELS GO HI-TECH
By Ian Maxwell Sterling From the December 2011 issue of SOF Things turn hi-tech for Karen rebels in Burma I have been up all night puking my guts out after downing a massive portion of lizard stew last night with Karen rebels in a jungle outpost. They had asked if …
Read More »SOF Fights Communism in El Salvador
“Death to Tyrants” By Dr. Martin Brass From the September 2007 issue of SOF SOF publisher, Lt. Col. USAR, (Ret) Robert K. Brown, who had fought the Communist aggressors during the Vietnam War, and his wild, colorful assortment of combat journalists, dubbed the SOF ‘Wild Bunch’ trotted around the globe, …
Read More »Born to Storm: A Commando In the South African Defence Force
ABOUT BORN TO STORM Herman van Niekerk In training South African 5 Special Forces Commando The Author: Herman van Niekerk is a highly decorated retired South African Special Forces Colonel. He left the military in 1999 after 27 years service and formed several of his own companies which specialized in security related training and …
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 »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 …
Read More »SOLDIERS OF MISFORTUNE PART 2: American Mercs Board Slow Boat to Ghana
By John Coleman From the May 1987 issue of SOF We hear about plots here at SOF. Lots of them. Usually they come in the form of drunk sailors in Cape Town, or out-of-work oil pipeline guards from’ ‘somewhere in the Middle East, babbling their sure-fire plan to topple someone …
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 …
Read More »Oklahoma City Bombing, 168 Killed
Timothy McVeigh at WacoMcVeigh was responsible for bombing the Oklahoma City building on April 19, 1995. On the morning of April 19, 1995, two men committed an unthinkable act of terror against their own country, detonating a bomb outside the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City. That bomb killed 168 people, including 19 …
Read More »Lt. Henry Harboard, ‘The Breaker’ Morant: the closing arguments, the request for pardon and the execution
Lieutenant Henry Harboard (Harry) ‘The Breaker’ Morant Australian War Memorial’s Side of the Story: Better known for the manner of his death before a firing squad than what he did in life, Harry Morant is believed to have been born on 9 December 1864 at Somerset in England. Much of …
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