COMMENTARY by Susan Katz Keating What would happen if enemy shadows enveloped an air traffic control system in a major U.S. city? How do we protect our country from unfriendly foreign entities working against us within our country? Sometimes the most dangerous actors don’t slip across borders under cover of night; …

by Susan Katz Keating Anna Chapman was a successful realtor who in 2009 mingled with ease among New York society. She was intelligent, beautiful, and lively – and perhaps overly confident. She apparently did not know that the Feds were on to her, and that she was being investigated for …

The French Foreign Legion these days is more exclusive than it used to be. If there is an Interpol notice against you, for example, you won’t get through the gate. A century ago, however, a man who wanted to escape his past and assume a new identity could disappear into …

Editor’s note: We get a lot of emails from men asking us to help them find work as mercenaries. I used to tell them we don’t run an employment agency. Now, I just offer them the inside scoop, and send this story about some soldiers of misfortune who learned a …

Hey Hockey Fans — Seen something new on the screens at Cap One Arena? That was us. Our video is here to tell you, Chase the Adventure, whether you’re in the arena or diving deep into our stories. Soldier of Fortune has been delivering hard-hitting reporting from the front lines for …

COMMENTARY by Susan Katz Keating My own sources – people with direct knowledge of the situation – tell me this story is far from over. The disarray now rippling through the Department of Defense is not just alarming – it’s a dangerous crisis. Firings. Backstabbing. Sniping. Resignations. This isn’t the kind …

by Susan Katz Keating “There’s a certain sound…” The song stuck with him for years afterwards. He was being marched to his execution in the jungles of Vietnam, and had been ordered to carry a radio to pick up “Radio Hanoi,” but he secretly dialed in to a station that …

by Susan Katz Keating In retrospect, it seems fitting that I met Viktor Belenko in Reno. He was a gambler hanging out in a gambling town, surrounded by pilots in their fast moving aircraft, barreling wildly around pylons. I went there many years back, looking for stories to be found …

Here at Soldier of Fortune, we uncovered a long-ago story of an atrocity during World War I, when eight prisoners met a horrific fate while captive in Germany. Here is the tale, as told by a fellow prisoner,  “Pedro.”  ~SKK Pedro’s Tale I was sailing on an English ship. She …

by Bobby Dee “Buford was just sitting there with the little kid. Just brought him up from the horse pasture and brought him over to the gate and was just hanging out with him.” A two-year-old boy who vanished from his home Monday afternoon was found safe the following morning …