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Note from publisher Susan Katz Keating: Today marks the launch of a new development at Soldier of Fortune: the addition of an Advisory Committee. When I first sought to form this board, I approached people I trust and admire, and who I have known over the years. I came up …

By Jolie McCullough, The Texas Tribune Convicted murderer Gonzalo Lopez on May 12, 2022 was on a prison transport bus in Central Texas when he managed to escape his handcuffs, cut into the driver’s compartment, and stab the driver with a makeshift weapon. He stole the officer’s gun, wrestled him …

by Jose Campos Drug cartels are using migrants as a commodity in order to fund their illicit enterprises, a Mexican police chief said. The cartels hold migrants for ransom, or trade them to human smugglers. “Organized criminal gangs are financing their operations through migrant trafficking,” Chihuahua state police Chief Gilberto …

It’s almost as big as a Soldier of Fortune gathering! Okay, make that, it’s way bigger than anything we’ve ever staged, and we are eager to find what’s on tap this year at SHOT Show. Myself, I’m keen to see what’s up with our great advertisers, along with guns and …

Russian troops have been training with the new AK-12, the latest iteration of the AK-47 combat rifle. But how is the weapon different? Jonathan Ferguson, the Keeper of Firearms and Artillery for the UK’s Royal Armouries Museum, said the new rifle is capable of fitting a lot more attachments. But …

Welcome to Dispatches, the latest in a series of new developments here at Soldier of Fortune. I’ll go into detail about more of them, below, but first a little backstory. Such as, how I – a conflict journalist who saw urban combat while I was a child in Ireland – …

A Maryland police officer used screw drivers as if they were ski poles, and pulled herself through ice-covered waters in order to rescue a 71-year old stranded pilot. The daring rescue occurred on Dec. 26, after Steve Couchman’s single-engine plane crashed into a frozen river. Police Officer Elizabeth Myers found …

by Martin Kufus Editor’s note: Author Martin Kufus has published Plow the Dirt but Watch the Sky, a memoir of his many adventures. Herewith some excerpts from the chapter where some unusual requests come his way while he is an editor at Soldier of Fortune. The phone call had come …

Ukrainian troops will arrive this month at Fort Sill in Oklahoma, in order to learn how to use the Patriot missile defense system, officials told Soldier of Fortune. About 100 Ukrainian troops — enough to sustain a Patriot battery — will train to use the system, officials said. The process …

Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov, who has both mocked and praised the Russian war effort against Ukraine, says he has sent fighters to bolster the front line forces there. About 300 fighters of the Special Purpose Mobile Unit (OMON) from Chechnya have been deployed to “the zone of the special military …