Soldier of Fortune Magazine

1 week ago | sofmag.com | Greg Chabot

Guns & Gear 20 Views by Greg ChabotBack in the summer of 2019, I was looking to review an oddball type rifle. At my local shop I noticed a rifle that had been marked down a few times. Talking with the manager, he gave me the deal of a lifetime. I could have it at cost plus 10% on the condition I never bring it in to sell or trade. I could tell by the layer of dust that no one had shown any interest.

1 week ago | sofmag.com | Jose Campos |José Roberto Campos

by Jose CamposPALAWAN, Philippines -In the sweltering heat of Palawan, the defenders went to work, one palm frond at a time. Members of the U.S. Marine Corps  and Philippine Marine Corps went to ground, to dig and disguise fighting positions ahead of a live-fire counter-landing drill at Quezon. The mission: vanish into the terrain, then hit back hard. The mission unfolded on June 2 during the 9th annual KAMANDAG exercise.

2 weeks ago | sofmag.com | Susan Katz Keating

COMMENTARY by Susan Katz KeatingThe gatekeepers in the U.S. security world are suffering from a dangerous case of collective amnesia when it comes to China. Witness the shocked undertones surrounding reports on two recent cases of Chinese nationals being charged with smuggling biological materials into the United States. The headlines sounded alarming, but they’re not new. They’re part of a long-standing pattern of Chinese infiltration—systematic, strategic, and state-sponsored.

2 weeks ago | sofmag.com | Friedrich Seiltgen

by Friedrich SeiltgenTAMPA, Florida – I opened the email from Soldier of Fortune Chief Susan Katz Keating and read her message: “Would you by chance be interested in taking a demo ride on a speedboat during Special Operations Week”? During SOF Week in May, Sharrow Marine had two boats at the marina to demonstrate firsthand how a traditional propeller performs against the same ship with a Sharrow propeller. I jumped at the chance and reported to Dock Five at the Tampa Convention Center.

2 weeks ago | sofmag.com | Susan Katz Keating

COMMENTARY by Susan Katz KeatingSomething strange crackled through the shortwave radio bands coming out of Russia last week. The long-dormant station UVB-76  –  known to old intelligence hands as the “Doomsday Radio” – buzzed to life on June 4, and began broadcasting again. The transmission was cryptic. The voice read two nonsense codewords: “azotobak” and “osholin.” To the untrained ear, it sounded like gibberish.