Susan Keating, publisher of Soldier of Fortune magazine, has given me a vote of confidence on LinkedIn in her article ‘So You Want To Be a War Correspondent’. I’m very flattered and grateful. LinkedIn link: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/susan-katz-keating-4437b07_so-you-want-to-be-a-war-correspondent-activity-7287898864706064385-1D15?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop Link to the article, ‘So You Want to Be a War Correspondent’: https://sofmag.com/how-to-be-a-war-correspondent/ –RdM
SHOT Show Activity and Ambience
Had a great meeting and conversations with US Ordnance. It’s a busy booth. I have done work for US Ordnance in Canada. US Ordnance weapon systems are well known worldwide. They are the last makers of the Mk19 automatice grenade launcher, which is extensively used in Ukraine. They also have…
Weapons, Military History
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SHOT Show 2025: DS Arms Reproduction of a T48, Prototype of the US Army FN FAL Rifle.
A DS Arms reproduction of a T48 prototype of the US FN FAL, which the US Army almost adopted as its standard rifle. It’s on display at the DS Arms booth at the SHOT Show. It’s interesting to note that this rifle had a Canadian advisory board because Canada was…
Heading to the SHOT Show in Las Vegas.
It’s quite the event. SHOT Show was originally a hunting and outdoor trade show that has become something far bigger, now involving and covering interests from law enforcement, the security and defence industry, high tech, and more. “The SHOT Show, which is an acronym for “Shooting, Hunting, and Outdoor Trade Show”, is an American annual trade show for the shooting sports, hunting, outdoor…
A Video of the AK-47 Busted, Missing Parts and Working, and Incredible Weird Quick Fix Solutions
For those interested in firearms, here’s a weird but fascinating video about the reliability of the AK-47 and how you can get it to work if parts and bits are missing. …I’m not sure about the stick thing, haha. But if you look carefully, the stick has rubber bands attached….
About the Alawite, Assads, Ba’athism, HTS, Sharaa, Islamists, Shia-ism, Heretics, Syria… The Middle East…
The cracks are beginning to show in Sharaa’s and HTS-dominated Syria with Alawite tensions. It suprises me that so many with an interest in counterterrorism, terrorism, especially how it relates to the Middle East (and geopolitics), and Islamist ideologies and movements, there appears to be so little interest in the…
Looking Back: A news item reposted on Egypt’s only Jewish Community’s website written by yours truly
See the original posting found on Bassatine News, in what was or is the only Jewish newsletter reporting directly from Egypt: http://bassatine.net/stayput.php I’m not sure if what the number of Egyptian Jews are today. Below is the text of the article: WE’RE STAYING PUT Egypt’s dwindling Jewish community is fighting…
Lebanon
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Lebanon Finally Elects a New President, a Veteran of the Battle of Elimination, and a Coincidence
“Under the National Pact, the President and the Commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces are always selected from the Maronite community.” Other than the analysis contained herein, here’s a little bit of background and personal experience that connects to Aoun: I find it interesting that Joseph Aoun served during the Elimination…
Never Bring a Knife to a Gunfight. Chad’s “disordered and incomprehensible” Coup Attempt
Foreign Minister Abderaman Koulamallah seen in a video apparently recorded at the presidential palace in N’Djamena. Photo from Facebook and BBC News. This is almost Monty Python-ish. Curious. It almost sounds like some cult group like attack with knives and no guns, like a suicide mission. Nineteen dead, less the…
My Uncle’s First Time in Combat in the Mozambique Colonial War, Soldier of Fortune Magazine
Below is a scanned copy of an old amusing article I wrote for Soldier of Fortune’s magazine’s ‘I Was There’ page called ‘First Chill’ about my uncle’s first experience in combat in Mozambique during the Colonial War. The story is written in the first person. When it was published, there…