News about Andy McNab

Five soldiers died in four incidents between 2017 and 2022, involving the Challenger II tank, Warrior and Jackal armoured vehicles, and the Scimitar light tank, a Mail audit found. Second Lieutenant Max George, 26, (top left) from County Durham - awarded the Queen's Medal at Sandhurst for achieving the best results in military, academic and practical studies of his cohort - was crushed to death by a reversing Warrior armoured personnel carrier in 2022. Two men died after a blast in a Challenger when the gun was fired without a critical part being fitted after servicing. Hot gases discharged backwards, igniting explosive charges, killing Corporals Matthew Hatfield and Darren Neilson, (top right) of the Royal Tank Regiment. Private Jethro Watson-Pickering (bottom left) of First Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment, died on October 15, 2021, when his Scimitar's gun collided with a tree while he drove 'head-up' on Salisbury Plain - causing a 'violent rotation'. Two other soldiers were seriously injured. Reservist Staff Sergeant John McKelvie, 51, (bottom right) of the Scottish and North Irish Yeomanry, was on a Jackal driving course on January 29, 2019, when his vehicle overturned on a steep slope at Catterick, North Yorkshire. He suffered multiple brain injuries.

Muhammad Ali, the boxing hero, was never accused of being modest. He was once ordered to improve his seat belt as the plane in which he was traveling was taxed for take-off. He said, 'I'm Superman,' he told the air stewards. 'Superman don't need no belt.' The stewardess didn't miss a single beat. 'Superman don't need no aeroplane,' she said, and a disarmed Ali duly buckled up. Wouldn't it be great if persuasion always worked like that? Right away. Incisively. Instinctively, the word "Instinctively" was used. However, it's often a matter of trial and error in everyday life. We get it right all the time, but we get it wrong. We are psychopaths, unless, that is. The word is often misused, as I wrote in the Mail series in 2014. Although many of our most popular murderers and serial murderers are psychopaths, the term is actually refers to a much larger group of people. They happen to have common traits that can be used in the right combination and with discretion and patience, they can achieve a lot in life. Persuading powers of persuasion, efficient nailing of goals, and the ability to identify one's own person are all psychopathic characteristics that can be useful in our daily lives.

Andy, the much-decorated former SAS operative and best-selling author of books like Bravo Two Zero, is deceived by few people. However, he once ended up shelling out thousands of pounds because of an oik with greased-back hair and cufflinks the size of plasma TV screens. Andy stepped into a Porsche showroom and was furious when this young upstart of a salesman stared at his trainers and tracksuit bottoms as though he were casing the joint. 'He didn't come over, he just shouted across the room: 'Can I help you?' Andy recalls him. I felt it more like an accusation than a concern, and people who make snap decisions about how you look really upset my hackles, so I pointed to a blue model with a sun roof and told him I wanted to buy it.' He sprinted around the showroom quicker than Usain Bolt, even offering the item to my house. And here's how I ended up with an £80,000 vehicle with leather upholstery that I didn't dare scoff my bacon sandwiches on, and a boot that was so small that I couldn't even fit a suitcase in it. I'd have gotten rid of it within a year.'

Hello. My name is Andy McNab and I'm a psychopath. That statement comes as a bit of a shock when you first hear it, doesn't it? Finding out that I could be described in this manner was certainly a surprise, but it turns out that I'm what they call a 'good psychopath,' and that it has unquestionably done me no harm in life. In fact, I think it's the reason I've been so successful. I've certainly come a long way since I was a child. I was adopted and brought up on a difficult housing estate in South-West London as a newborn baby. I've been through a lot of challenges, but one of them has always been similar to another. You'll already know that I was in the British Army for 18 years if you've read my books. In the Special Air Service, eight infantryman and ten others are infantryman, while ten are ten. I've always been up for things, whether it's being number one on a hostage rescue; going undercover in Derry with a South London accent; or, these days, talking to board members of a company that is going bankrupt because they don't know their backsides from their elbows. I've always believed, 'I'll get away with it,' and I always have. This is just one example of the 'good psychopath,' and I'm sharing this with the intention of assisting you in making the most of your own inner psychopath. Don't be concerned. We're not trying to turn you into Hannibal Lecter, but we're trying to find some simple psychopathic tips for getting the most out of life.

As he lead terrified tourists to safety, Sergeant Christian Craighead risked his life to save hundreds of civilians held in the Dusit D2 luxury hotel in Nairobi, Kenya, four years ago. The 19-hour siege by Somali gunmen with the al-Shabaab terror group killed 21 people. The Ministry of Defence later gave an off-duty Christian the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross for his bravery, but the Ministry of Defence barred him from discussing it in a memoir or speaking tour. Instead, the SAS man has written The Wrong Wolf, a children's book. Taking to Instagram, he wrote, "It's not the book you're looking for, but I'm also extremely proud of it."

The soldier (pictured), who goes by the pseudonym Christian Craighead, wanted to publish his account of the day five terrorists stormed the Dusit D2 hotel complex in Nairobi, killing 21 civilians. He was given a conspicuous Gallantry Cross, a bravery medal second only to a Victoria Cross for his reaction to the gun and grenade attack. Craighead commenced a court challenge to a ban imposed by the Secretary of Defense, alleging that doing so would have violated his freedom of expression. However, he has been forbidden from publishing the book after the High Court ruled that the ban should be retained to shield the SAS' tradecraft in the interest of national security.

The best-selling author and former soldier, who commanded the Bravo Two Zero patrol during the First Gulf War, said he could kill people but not worry about it too much, which could be useful on the battlefield. Speaking on Andy Coulson's Crisis What Crisis? Mr McNab, a podcast, talked about participating in a psychological study at Oxford University that explored how people thrive in environments and where 'good psychopathy' really helps. However, he confessed that his psychopathy could cause issues, saying, "I've got the ability to murder people and not worry too much about it."