Article doesn’t have much content, instead here are links to the actual old magazines:
https://archive.org/details/soldieroffortunemagazine
It’s particularly annoying that the article focused on American elections, which basically had nothing to do with SOF magazine. Especially when PMCs have become so widespread in the last few decades, and the modern mercenary’s role in recent conflicts. But I guess the “new” magazine isn’t really intended to cover that industry.
The problem with that is, like the Panama papers, accurate reporting on this kind of thing is personally risky, while pandering to fantasists is harmless (to the author) and taking money from propagandists is extremely lucrative.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphne_Caruana_Galizia vs, say, Tim Pool.
The picture on page 23 is.....something. Also it's fascinating to read about the process to apply for work with security forces in Rhodesia, definitely....unique.
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Just as a heads-up to anyone sensitive to reading such things, some of the articles in the old SoFs use a lot of slurs and are pretty racist.
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