Magazine Work

Samuel Katz was the editor-in-chief of Special Operations Report, a quarterly magazine dedicated to military and law enforcement special operations and counterterrorism that was published from 2003-2009. Read by more than 25,000 decision-makers in defense ministries, military and police commands, and by special operations and intelligence service unit commanders around the world, Special Operations Report became one of the most respected publications in the industry. In his duties as editor-in-chief, Katz ventured into the Gaza night with Israeli undercover commandos and on operations with police and military forces from dozens of nations. Katz has interviewed kings, government ministers, and police commissioners, and men who have fought deep behind enemy lines. 

Katz has written more than one hundred articles for popular and professional publications around the world and in a multitude of languages, ranging from Jane’s Intelligence Review, Popular Mechanics, and Air & Space/Smithsonian to global editions of Esquire, Vanity Fair, GQ, Maxim, Men’s Journal, FHM, and Playboy. His articles have been translated into more than twenty languages.