Combat Art

As noted in the ODS gallery, I was the Navy’s official Combat Artis for Operation Desert Storm in 1991. However as a “soldier, sailor, artist, spy” I was a combatant, advisor, observer, intelligence operative, or peacekeeper in about 25 wars, revolutions, coups, and civil conflicts from 1969 to 2013 in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, the Caribbean, and Central America. This gallery depicts both paintings and sketches (some of them less “mature in execution “ than later ones) that reflect the history that I observed during those decades.