Brown, a retired Army lieutenant colonel and Vietnam Special Forces operative, has even become a media pundit because of his magazine’s unrivaled coverage of the Soviet war in Afghanistan. Brown and his correspondents take more than notebooks to war zones–they join in battle. During a reporting trip to Afghanistan in 1982, Brown fought alongside Afghan rebels by firing mortar rounds at a Soviet encampment. Four correspondents have died in combat since 1976.
From the monthly’s office in Boulder, Colorado, Brown is dispatching correspondents to Afghanistan and rewriting upcoming editions to reflect the surge in interest about self-defense, weapons and covert action. He promises “the best in coverage of World War III.” Readers can expect prose unseen in the mainstream media. The terrorists behind the “yellow-bellied sneak attack” will see “one helluva lot of steel coming their way stamped Made in U.S.A.’,” Brown writes in the December issue. One article asks: “Would you feel safer if your pilots were packing?” And Brown interviews a retired French general and interrogator who tortured Algerian insurrectionists during a bloody conflict in Africa in the 1950s. The headline: torture to prevent terrorism? It’s a question Brown thinks Americans must consider. Ouch.
