January 8, 2014

A Soldier of Fortune Speaks

By James Simpson
Lt. Col. Robert K. Brown (USAR - Ret.), Editor and Publisher of the notoriously politically incorrect Soldier of Fortune magazine, and his co-author, Vann Spencer, recently published his astonishing autobiography, I Am Soldier-of-Fortune: Dancing with Devils. This is one of those books you just have to read. Col. Brown is an American icon. His life story is so wild, you might be skeptical were it not all demonstrably true. The flavor of the book is captured in the prologue. Col. Brown recounts a time he and a few compatriots were huddled in the flat bed of a pickup truck in the center of Sarajevo, while 12.7 mm machine gun rounds flew overhead: What the hell was I doing here, anyhow? I had long lost count of the times I had asked myself that question when caught in some hotspot with no escape hatch in sight, vowing that I was done with jumping into the heat of hostilities between some vindictive ethnic groups or hashish-crazed warring tribes. Again as the tracers screamed...(Read Full Article)