Tim Spicer

Career in brief

1974 Joined army, 21 SAS

1976 Sandhurst, Scots Guards

1982 Falklands. Becomes major in :1985

1986-87 Company commander in Northern Ireland

1990 Joint planning group Desert Storm

1991 Military assistant to Gen Peter de la Billière

1991-93 Special Forces

1994 MA for Gen Sir Michael Rose in Sarajevo

1996 Leaves army. Sets up Sandline International

Robert Baer, Iraq's Mercenary King, Vanity Fair, April 2007
Stephen Armstrong, The enforcer, The Guardian, 20 May 2006.
Pratap Chatterjee, Give War a Chance: The Life and Times of Tim Spicer, Corpwatch, 9 June 2004.