
Over the years, SKK wrote for SOF about American POWs in Korea, and the rise of China’s Peoples Liberation Army. Her story about that battle, the embodiment of being on Desperate Ground, remains one of the most popular stories in the online magazine. Her article on the Battle of OP Nevada in Afghanistan was one of the last cover stories for the print magazine. In our pages, she wrote about war and warriors. Over the years, Susan has written for Soldier of Fortune Magazine, as well as for other military and mainstream publications. She also can tell stories of intrigue in pre-war Dubrovnik and Sarajevo, and of action in Belfast and South Armagh during the height of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. She can tell those stories herself, about Nick Rowe, Charlie Beckwith, Eden Pastora, and others. waterfront involving encounters with foreign rebel leaders, and at gatherings with some of the most fascinating military figures of our day.

Since then, SKK accompanied our team at the Washington, D.C. Other SOF-ers and I went on one of those missions, where Bailey helped people escape from persecution in Vietnam, and to learn more information about Americans MIA from the Vietnam War. Jack Bailey USAF (Ret.) on a waterborne rescue mission in the South China Sea. Later, SKK facilitated PEOPLE Magazine to accompany Col. She can tell the story about how that went.


Susan first connected with SOF years ago, when she took out an ad in the magazine, looking for mercenaries. After having given it considerable thought, I am passing the torch to journalist and author Susan Katz Keating, who has contributed to SOF and has been a friend to the magazine since the early 1980s. After 47 adventure-filled years of publishing Soldier of Fortune Magazine, I decided it was time to move on to other long awaited projects, including writing books of the SOF adventures.
