No real mercenary would, of course, be caught dead reading such tripe. In actuality, it is a modern-day version of the men's adventure magazines that proliferated from the 1940s through the 1970s, filled with exaggerated (or fabricated) stories about mercenary exploits, violence and badassery in Third World combat zones, combined with a ferociously right-wing, jingoistic editorial stance. Soldier of Fortune is a magazine founded in 1975, allegedly about the exploits of modern mercenaries. "The Dark Side of 'Soldier of Fortune' Magazine: Contract Killers and Mercenaries for Hire", David Holthouse We talked about killing commies the same way we talked about slaying orcs. “ ”For my Dungeons & Dragons buddies and I, reading Soldier of Fortune was like perusing a Dungeon Master's Guide or Monster Manual.
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