In short, the Soldiers of Fortune went where even the U.S. Brown, founder of the Soldier of Fortune magazine (Photo: Soldier of Fortune) Brown sent medical teams, often into the jaws of danger, to Burma, Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, Afghanistan, Bosnia, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Peru after a devastating earthquake. Generals and leaders of exotic armies welcomed the SOF visitors, led them, or tread into unchartered territory.īrown 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 Laos the army of El Salvador and the armed forces of struggling Croatia. In their revolutionary journalistic style, they created the action and then wrote about it. His rogue warrior journalists embedded themselves with anti-Communist guerillas or freedom fighters, often training and fighting with rebels against oppressive regimes. 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. Soldier of Fortune is a legendary SOF magazine founded by Robert K. His wildly popular, notorious magazine became an icon for action-seekers in the U.S. 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.

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