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The world of anti-poaching is difficult and dangerous. Especially when you come face to face with an enraged rhinoceros. by S. Anderson I’ve always been fascinated by the African Bush. Lions, Leopards, Cape Buffalo, Elephant, and Rhino. The Big 5. Endless rolling hills, dense bush, and undisturbed ecology. Growing up, …

by Susan Katz Keating It remains one of the strangest and most unsettling unsolved mysteries of the Vietnam War. The stories were too strange to be true; and at first, no one believed them. American patrols in Vietnam returned from the jungles near the DMZ and along the Laotian border …

At Soldier of Fortune’s Boulder office, a ringing telephone could bring a request from Hunter S. Thompson or the FBI. Former editor Martin Kufus recalls life at the magazine in this excerpt from his memoir, Plow the Dirt but Watch the Sky. by Martin Kufus The phone call had come in …

by Mikial The author tells Soldier of Fortune: “All of my work was with Department of Defense contractors. We never considered ourselves mercenaries although we were called mercenaries, gunslingers, and worse at times. It was difficult and dangerous work and also sometimes boring. We often lived rough in camps and …

by Martin Kufus Somali piracy already was waning in 2012 when I arrived on the Indian Ocean as a member of a four-man rifle team guarding a client’s cargo ship against hijack. It was my first time aboard an ocean-going vessel. This one was an Asian-flagged liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) …

by Stephen Caldwell A woman flew into Detroit Metro Airport from Shanghai on Sept. 8, one of many trips she made between China and the United States. When customs officers questioned her, she identified herself as Di Jin. She said she planned to spend 11 days with an 81-year-old friend …

by Susan Katz Keating China and other foreign actors are using Ukraine as a testbed, deploying cut-outs and deniable assets to gather real-time data on drones, intelligence sources told Soldier of Fortune. The grainy figures moved across the screen, creeping through murky terrain like shadows come to life. A blip …

This particular quietness may have been the reverberation of something spectral moving through the earth. by Heath Hansen I slowly poured a bit of water into my MRE heater bag and waited as the chemicals reacted and began to warm. I slid the main course into the packet and folded …

An ambush in the swamps, a lone scout’s night of chaos, and a jungle con that fooled the FARC. What can a small force do when an enemy has the advantage? Soldier of Fortune looks at three ways to meet the challenge. Francis Marion: How the ‘Swamp Fox’ Mastered Guerrilla …

by Susan Katz Keating The Beirut barracks bombing killed 241 American servicemen on October 23, 1983. A second bombing struck the nearby French barracks, killing 58 paratroopers. I spoke with men who were there about the attacks and their aftermath. Morning reveille had not yet sounded at the Marine Corps …