Anybody else stop reading SOF in the last few years?

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Anybody else stop reading SOF in the last few years?

Posted: 1/10/2003 10:46:28 AM EDT

I used to be a loyal reader-I've got almost every issue from 1978-1999, but with the end of the Cold War SOF changed. I don't know if Bob Brown lost editorial control, or if there just wasn't much to write about, but when Kokalis left I stopped buying it. I did read through it every month at the newstand. Then I went and picked up the new issue, and was reminded why I stopped buying it. With the whole war going on they don't have one guy in Afghanistan? Frankly their coverage of the war has left me a little disappointed.
Small Arms Review is the only magazine I get now.
Anybody else feel that way?

Tim

PS Matt, e-amil me. Yes, you, No Slack!

Posted: 1/10/2003 11:07:30 AM EDT

[#1]

I just started back reading it again a few months ago. I really like it. I have seen numerous article in the last few issues on events in Afghanistan.

Posted: 1/10/2003 1:44:09 PM EDT

[#2]

I quit reading it years ago, when I realized that Peter Kokalis was taking payoffs to write glowing reports about some guns, and panning the weapons whose makers or importers didn't pay him off. I figured that if I couldn't believe the gun reviews, I couldn't trust anything else they had to say either.

Posted: 1/10/2003 1:47:55 PM EDT

[#3]

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I quit reading it years ago, when I realized that Peter Kokalis was taking payoffs to write glowing reports about some guns, and panning the weapons whose makers or importers didn't pay him off. I figured that if I couldn't believe the gun reviews, I couldn't trust anything else they had to say either.

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I hadn't heard of that one...

Posted: 1/10/2003 1:56:47 PM EDT

[#4]

No more "Slick Willy watch".

Posted: 1/10/2003 2:17:54 PM EDT

[#5]

Picked one up at the newstand recently. What happened to the World Sitrep page?

Posted: 1/10/2003 5:16:59 PM EDT

[#6]

World Sitrep went by the wayside becuase by print time it was usually outdated.

They had lots of articles on Afghanistan including in-depth reports on the Canadian sniper teams as well as intense fire fights/battles.

During their anniversary period I signed up for their "lifetime" subscription offer for only $150.

They are THE most non-PC, no bullshit magazine out on the market today.

Robert Brown is still running the show.

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Anybody else stop reading SOF in the last few years?

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