Watchguard International

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Private military company registered in Jersey in 1965 by SAS veterans David Stirling and John Woodhouse.

Woodhouse's first assignment was to go to Yemen to report on the state of the royalist forces when a cease-fire was declared. At the same time Stirling was cultivating his contacts in the Iranian government and exploring the chances of obtaining work in Africa.[1]
The company did operate in Zambia and in Sierra Leone, providing training teams and advising on security matters, but it's founder's maverick ways of doing business caused its eventual downfall.[2]
Woodhouse resigned as Director of Operations after a series of disagreements and Stirling himself ceased to take an active part in 1972. [3]

references

  1. The SAS: Savage Wars of Peace: 1947 to the Present, by Anthony Kemp, John Murray, 1994, p88.
  2. The SAS: Savage Wars of Peace: 1947 to the Present, by Anthony Kemp, John Murray, 1994, p88.
  3. The SAS: Savage Wars of Peace: 1947 to the Present, by Anthony Kemp, John Murray, 1994, ppp88-89.