I really enjoyed reading In the Service of the Sultan, which has given me some really good ideas for the fictional back story of my Sandbox Skirmish project. In particular, I now have an identity for the rebel movement, who will be officially known as the Jebali Popular Liberation Front or JPLF, and unofficially as the ‚Adoo‘, which translates as ‚enemy‘ in Arabic.

To give me some more inspiration, I’m now reading this book, which is about the clandestine involvement of ex-SAS soldiers for hire in Yemen in the 1970’s. I’m not a big fan of these Who Dares Wins type books but this one isn’t as Gung Ho as usual, so might actually be worth the time. I might even include an SAS team in the project, albeit a very small one.