Robert K. Brown, former Green Beret, after a bizarre military
career that succeeded in getting him kicked out of Special Forces
not once but twice, and completing the Command and General Staff
College without a security clearance, while meantime being wounded
in Nam, finally found his true calling as a publisher. Thirty-eight
years ago he launched an upstart magazine from his basement called
Soldier of fortune, which pushed the bounds of journalism to its
limits with his untamed brand of reporting - a camera in one hand,
a gun in the other, and soon thereafter he discovered that he'd
established a worldwide community. His wildly popular, notorious
magazine became an icon for action-seekers in the U.S. and around
the world. In this long-awaited book, Brown tells his own story,
taking the readers into combat zones where he and his daring combat
journalists, or fearless 'dogs of war', trotted across the globe.
His rogue warrior journalists embedded themselves with
anti-Communist guerillas or freedom fighters, often training and
fighting with rebels against oppressive regimes. In their
revolutionary journalistic style, they created the action and then
wrote about it. Generals and leaders of exotic armies welcomed the
SOF visitors and led them or allowed them to tread into unchartered
territory. Brown himself accompanied teams to work and fight with
the Rhodesians, the Afghans during the Afghan-Russo war, Christian
Phalange in Lebanon, ethnic minority Karens in Burma, the ethnic
tribes fighting the Communist government of Laos, the army of El
Salvador and the armed forces of struggling Croatia. Brown sent
medical teams, often into the jaws of danger, to Burma, Guatemala,
the Dominican Republic, Afghanistan, Bosnia, El Salvador and
Nicaragua, and also into Peru after a devastating earthquake. In
short, the 'Soldiers of fortune' went where even the U.S.
government feared to tread, and they did it with gallant style, not
fearing risk but welcoming the challenge, as long as they felt the
cause was right and needed to be reported. In this book the
exploits of Brown and his veteran teams are revealed for the first
time in all their gonzo glory, even as the U.S. military, public,
and polite diplomatic society sometimes shunned their endeavours.
This is the story of Robert Brown's dogged quest, in journalism as
well as warfare, to "Slay dragons, do noble deeds and never, never
give up".
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