![]() But what made Soldier of Fortune so enticing in my 11-year-old mind was less its editorial content than its infamous advertising.Īlong with ads for mail-order brides, bounty hunter training manuals, surveillance electronics, Secrets of the Ninja lessons (including “mind clouding” and “sentry removal”), Nazi memorabilia, machine guns, silencers, and sniper rifles, Soldier of Fortune advertised the services of guns for hire. I remember Soldier of Fortune articles in those days being a macho-to-the-max amalgam of firearms reviews, anti-gun control rants, Vietnam POW conspiracy theories and gory first-hand reporting on Cold War proxy wars, military coups and revolutions in Second and Third World nations. This was in the mid-1980s, the Rambo-era heyday of the “journal of the professional adventurer.” The seizure was preceded by a parent-teacher conference at which exhibit A was a recent two-page essay I’d written about wanting to be a mercenary when I grew up. When I was in sixth grade my parents took away my collection of Soldier of Fortune magazines. The Dark Side of “Soldier of Fortune” Magazine: Contract Killers and Mercenaries for Hireĭavid Holthouse - Media Matters for America
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