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![]() In this line of business, putting rounds on target is our motto. One component that has really taken off is the augmenting of technology to increase the hit probability on targets of opportunity. But the weapons, load bearing equipment and the tools they use to put first-round hits on targets have changed drastically. The fundamental traits are still intact: keen observation skills, mental acuity, physical fitness and sound understanding of marksmanship fundamentals. Today’s snipers look a lot different from the snipers of yesteryear. “Snipers aren’t deadly because they carry the biggest guns they’re deadly because they’ve learned how to weaponize technology.” Pitch your ideas, and send me something I can use. Speaking of which, please feel free to do to me what I did to RKB when Tapscott and I held him captive inside the sports car. I will advocate on behalf of veterans, and will chronicle developments in terrorism, survival, and overall badassery. I offer reports on guns and gear, and soon will set up a shop for those of you who want to keep your SOFMAG swag close at hand. I plan to feature stories from conflict zones, with reports from contributors inside Ukraine, the Horn of Africa, and on the U.S. Here’s what the future looks like for SOF. The initial offering is an excerpt from a novel set in World War I. Lastly, I have introduced fiction for the first time in SOF history. Here you will find commentary, opinion, and announcements such as this. Commencing with SHOT Show 2023, we have another new section, Dispatches. Be sure to check it out – I think you’ll agree that these are stories you won’t find elsewhere, and are well worth reading. In The Fire Pit, we have stories, book reviews, and lore from some remarkably gifted contributors. I also have introduced new writers and sections. Recent offerings include works from Greg Chabot and Martin Kufus. So far, I have featured works by writers whose bylines will be recognized by longtime readers. I am honored that when at age 90 he decided to switch gears to write books about his many adventures, he entrusted me to take the reins at SOF. For decades, RKB was a major presence at Soldier of Fortune. In order to help, RKB thought I needed a distraction, and asked me to plot the U.S. Many years ago, when I was pregnant with my first baby, a murderer killed a woman, and then shot my husband, Michael, in the head while stealing his car (miraculously, he survived). He has been a mentor and friend, and a great colleague and boss who found creative approaches to difficult situations. I am grateful to him for giving me a chance to write for him, and in many ways for taking me under his wing. The Colonel is educated and hilariously funny, and is a true American original. All the players, as they used to be called, wanted his attention and insights. For years, everyone who had an interest in frontline and back-country warfare and rebellions knew RKB, and recognized that he was tightly plugged into the world of combat, warriors, and weaponry. The message I want to send today is what RKB means to the world of journalism, and the contribution he has made to writing the first drafts of history the world over.ĭuring his years with SOF, Bob and his reporters have done important work – on the abandoned battlefields of Vietnam and Laos, in Afghanistan and elsewhere, and within the convoluted web of international security operations. I’ll tell the story later of how my colleague Mark Tapscott and I then offered RKB a ride into town, and how we stuffed him into the hatchback of a bright red sports car, and proceeded to pepper our captive with story ideas. He repeated his suggestion that I send him “something I can use in SOF.”Ĭheck your inbox or spam folder to confirm your subscription. So when I ran into him by chance after he’d met with Washington Times editors, I reminded him that I still wanted to write for him. The Colonel, RKB himself, gruffly told me I was welcome to send him something he could actually use. I called SOF headquarters in Boulder, Colorado, and offered to write a story about the mishap. My respondents (and some government types) thought I was trying to raise a private army. At the time, I merely wanted to write about mercs. Brown would sell me the magazine he founded in 1975. I had no way of knowing that one day Robert K. I met “RKB” decades ago in the lobby of the Washington Times newspaper, a couple years after I took out an ad in Soldier of Fortune Magazine, looking for mercenaries. Such as, how I – a conflict journalist who saw urban combat while I was a child in Ireland – came to run this outfit. I’ll go into detail about more of them, below, but first a little backstory. Welcome to Dispatches, the latest in a series of new developments here at Soldier of Fortune.
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