Beyond Our Consent. This item is unavailable.Beyond Our Consent

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."
-Edmund Burke, Present Discontents (1770)

Robert Harris Brevig, author of BEYOND OUR CONSENT, and many articles presented on his distinctive and informative NATIONMAKERS website, has a background of training and experience with the United States Army's Special Forces (Airborne). He served in both Headquarters and A-Team capacities and also volunteered to participate in developing the Pentagon's first experimental, Top Secret, Long Range Reconnaissance Patrols (LRRP - [Eyes behind the lines] - Airborne). Their mission was to deploy by parachute, or other means, and infiltrate behind the enemy's lines for the purpose of securing strategic Combat Intelligence information and/or undertaking shock operations. His Special Operations unit's cold-war mission also included the secret deployment of Special Atomic Demolition Munitions (SADM-tactical nukes) at strategic locations along East / West European borders in the event of a feared Soviet land invasion. Then, by employing escape and evasion tactics by which to survive their intrusions into unfriendly territory, return to their own friendly lines. Joint training exercises often included German Special Forces, British Commandos and French Foreign Legionnaires. Brevig was awarded British and German parachutist wings for his participation in these operations in several European countries during the cold-war. of the early 1960's. His military career was unceremoniously interrupted by severe injuries he sustained in a terrifying plunge from an aircraft at an altitude of 1200 feet (nearly 400 meters) when both his parachutes failed to fully deploy. After a lengthy recovery and eventual separation, his continuing adventures led him on an odyssey across Western and Eastern Europe and into the Middle East as a news journalist based in Teheran, Iran when the Arab/Israeli, Six-Day War, broke out in 1967. Other career endeavors have included exhibition parachutist, boat builder, Pacific island plantation management, cultur