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continue the war. The Rhodesian military had much difficulty in replacing men killed or wounded in the war, and by 1977 the Rhodesian security forces had been pushed to their breaking point by manpower shortages. By 1977, the Rhodesian security forces were on the defensive and had been forced to cede control of vast areas of rural Rhodesia to the ZIPRA and ZANLA guerrillas, owing to manpower shortages. Rhodesia was trapped in a vicious circle, as the Rhodesian forces lost of control more of the countryside, and more whites chose to leave. As the "white flight" continued, the more the Rhodesians continued to lose.
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the United States. Brown said of the Contras "these people had no military training at all" and stated his mission "could hardly be called a resounding success" as all of the Contras he had trained as spies were captured by the Sandinistas and executed. The Contra war in Nicaragua was covered extensively in
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The quality of recruits that came to Rhodesia varied widely. Some such as L.H. "Mike" Williams and Michael Pierce, both veterans of the U.S. Army who had fought in Vietnam, had successful careers in the Rhodesian Army. One of the first Americans to go to Rhodesia was John Alan Corey, a veteran of the
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During the Bush War, about 13,395 whites left Rhodesia annually, which were losses that Rhodesia could ill afford, given the small number of whites compared to blacks. The white flight caused by the Bush War led to the Rhodesian Army having significant problems in maintaining enough white soldiers to
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In May 2022, Brown wrote: "I am passing the torch to journalist and author Susan Katz Keating, who has contributed to SOF and has been a friend to the magazine since the early 1980s." He noted: "I am convinced that Susan has the passion and is well prepared to carry on the legacy of the last 47 years
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to recruit Americans who as private citizens would train and arm the Contras. The assignment was meant to provide the Reagan administration with the necessary "plausible deniability" that it was not attempting to circumvent Congress, which had banned assistance to the Contras. Singlaub retired from
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depicted Rhodesia as a paradise where women and black people still knew their place, as the articles urged their readers to enlist in the Rhodesian Army in order to defend Rhodesia against the black guerrillas. One story about Rhodesia stated: "What we have here is an ideal core of white people who
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Brown accepted the assignment and recruited several of the mercenaries he recruited to fight for Rhodesia in the 1970s to go with him to Honduras to train the Contras. Brown and his assorted mercenaries went to Camp Las Vegas on the Nicaraguan-Honduran border, along with a consignment of arms from
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that forms one of the main routes into Afghanistan along the Afghan-Pakistani border was described being full of Americans who were "Walter Mitty types" who talked loudly of coming into Afghanistan. All of the available evidence suggests that only a small number of the American volunteers actually
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In the online magazine, publisher Keating revived original reporting, and sent correspondents into the field in Ukraine, Serbia, Israel, and along the southern U.S. border with Mexico. She introduced a new section entitled The Fire Pit, where readers submit personal stories of war and adventure.
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system was doomed. The majority of the Americans who went to Rhodesia were not veterans of the Vietnam war nor had they served in the U.S. military. The majority of men who had never seen war before flinched in the face of its horrors and chose to desert. One article in
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describing with great relish how a mere handful of white mercenaries could almost effortlessly defeat hordes of black guerrillas were thinly veiled racist fantasies that were meant to establish the superiority of white men over black men. Likewise, the stories in
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Among those whose stories appear in the section are Gen.(Ret) Scott Miller, formerly the four-star general in charge of U.S. forces in Afghanistan and Jan Scruggs, founder of the Vietnam Memorial Wall, along with numerous warfighters and veterans.
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urging white American men to come to fight for Rhodesia, writing that: "Rhodesia has many things to offer. Good Rhodesian beer, a friendly populace, and what I would describe as a free and easy, unhurried way of life, lots of wide open spaces".
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in 1979 complained: "The majority found the routine too rough to last more than a few months. The desertion rate among the American citizens who have joined the Rhodesian Army over the last two years is estimated to run at about 80 percent".
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magazine that read: "GUN FOR HIRE." Braun's sons filed a civil lawsuit against the magazine, and a jury found in their favor, awarding them $ 12.37 million in damages, which the judge later reduced to $ 4.37 million. In 1992, the
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The reference to the "winds of change" in Corey's letter was to a 1960 speech given by the British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in South Africa, where he stated that a "wind of change" was sweeping across Africa and that the
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glorified Rhodesia as a place where it was still possible to "Be a Man Among Men". From 1972 onward, the white supremacist government of Rhodesia was engaged in a war against the black guerrillas of the Soviet-backed
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Unlike South Africa whose white population was both larger and longer established, Rhodesia was highly dependent upon recruiting white men from aboard to replace its losses in the war. Brown was inspired to found
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On February 20, 1985, John Wayne Hearn shot and killed Sandra Black for a $ 10,000 payment from her husband, Robert Vannoy Black Jr. Black connected with Hearn through a classified advertisement published in
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In 1989, four men were convicted of conspiracy to murder in the 1985 contract killing of Richard Braun of Atlanta, Georgia. The killers were hired through a classified services advertisement published in
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The magazine gained publicity in July 2023 when Keating published her investigative series on the cocaine packet that was discovered inside the Biden White House. The articles were picked up by
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was the final print edition. Further editions have been published online. The magazine is published by Soldier of Fortune LLC, owned by Susan Katz Keating, and is based in Tampa, Florida.
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The jury found the defendants grossly negligent in publishing Hearn's ad for implicit illegal activity (murder) and awarded the plaintiffs $ 9.5 million in damages. In 1990, the
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under Robert K. Brown was sued in civil court several times for having published classified advertisements by private "guns for hire." In 1987, Norman Norwood of Arkansas sued
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in the 1980s, but Brown did not mention that he had been hired to train the Contras and instead presented himself and the other mercenaries as journalists covering the war.
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Keating was featured in a profile in The New Yorker Magazine, in an article that appeared online on September 2, 2024, and in print in the issue dated September 12, 2024.
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the U.S. Army in 1979, but he was working unofficially for the National Security Council in the 1980s, which he bombarded with various plans to overthrow the Sandinistas.
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Vietnam war who joined the Rhodesian Light Infantry Regiment and who was killed in action in July 1975. Corey was celebrated as a martyr for freedom in an article in
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As a further inducement, Lamprecht promised that it would be easy for single white men to find a suitable wife in Rhodesia. The stories about Rhodesia in
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as a forum to recruit soldiers for Rhodesia. Brown worked closely with the chief recruiting officer of the Rhodesian Army, Major Nick Lamprecht, on using
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was published by the Omega Group Ltd., in Boulder, Colorado. At the height of its circulation in the early 1980s the magazine had 190,000 subscribers.
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as due to a white male backlash against the rise of feminism and the rise of civil rights movement, as he noted that the majority of the readers of
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upheld the judgment of the jury, saying "the publisher could recognize the offer of criminal activity as readily as its readers did." In 1993, the
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reversed the verdict, saying that the standard of conduct imposed upon the magazine was too high because the advertisement was ambiguously worded.
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of SOF magazine. She is a strong supporter of the military and a patriotic American. She now is the publisher of Soldier of Fortune Magazine."
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allowed the judgment to stand when it refused to hear the case. The magazine subsequently suspended publication of classified advertisements.
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in 1975 after a visit to Rhodesia, where an American friend, a veteran of the Vietnam war who was now serving the para-military
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was ostensibly intended for mercenaries and "professional adventurers", but Brown admitted that the majority of the readers of
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attempt by two men hired via a "Gun for Hire" advertisement in the magazine. The magazine settled the lawsuit out of court.
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crossed the border, and of those who crossed the frontier, an even a smaller number survived Afghanistan and returned.
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Brownell, Josiah (September 2008). "The Hole in Rhodesia's Bucket: White Emigration and the End of Settler Rule".
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The Internet Claims Another Victim – ‘Soldier of Fortune’ Magazine To Cease Hard Copy Publication, Go Digital Only
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magazine and its parent publishing company Omega Group Ltd., seeking $ 21 million in redress of their grievance.
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were white men who resented feminists and "uppity" non-white people, especially Afro-Americans. The stories in
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In 2022, publisher Keating affirmed that under her watch, the magazine would not publish such advertisements.
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was selling 120,000 copies per month, making it into one of the most popular American magazines of the 1970s.
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are able to raise the standards of living among the Africans. Without us, conditions will decline rapidly".
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Burke described Brown as a "passionate supporter" of the white supremacist government of Rhodesia, and
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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/09/09/the-magazine-for-mercenaries-enters-polite-society
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market", referring to weak, insecure men who merely fantasized about being macho mercenaries.
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published from 1975 to 2016 as a magazine devoted to worldwide reporting of wars, including
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In the late 1970s and the 1980s, the success and popularity of a military magazine such as
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to recruit white American men for the Rhodesian Army. Lamprecht wrote in an article in
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celebrated the machismo and womanizing of the mercenary sub-culture as the male ideal.
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was in effect, which banned American assistance to the Contras, in May 1985 General
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James Taulbee, "Soldiers of fortune: A legal leash for the dogs of war?",
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Brown was well aware that Rhodesia was losing the Bush War and used
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In 2018, American historian Kyle Burke described the popularity of
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Susan Katz Keating, editor and publisher, as of March 30, 2022.
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was its recruitment of foreign nationals to serve in the
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paramilitary
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English
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conventional warfare
low-intensity warfare
counter-insurgency
counter-terrorism
Boulder, Colorado
Robert K. Brown
Lieutenant Colonel
U.S. Army Reserve
Robert K. Brown
Vietnam
mercenary
Oman
Qaboos
deposed his father
communist insurgency
Rhodesian Security Forces
Rhodesian Bush War
Walter Mitty
Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army
Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army
British South Africa Police
Afghanistan
Peshawar
Khyber Pass

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