Adnan Sarwar, Author at Taki's Magazine - Taki's Magazine

Adnan Sarwar

Adnan Sarwar is a former soldier who served for ten years in the British Army. He now writes, acts and lives in London. His interests are girls, guns and rum.

Zaitunay Bay, Beirut

Travel

Don”t Come for the War

Adnan Sarwar

I landed at Rafic Hariri Airport at five in the morning. Friends had asked if Beirut was d...

Zayn Malik

Zeitgeist

Carry On

Adnan Sarwar

Three thousand miles from the fighting in Syria I was sat with Pakistanis who definitely w...

War

Shorn of Individuality

Adnan Sarwar

In Basic Training, we were given a set of civilian clothes which had to be worn whenever w...

War

Moonlight Over Basra

Adnan Sarwar

One of my sergeant majors was an airborne soldier and what he said was gospel to us. We yo...

War

When the Towers Fell

Adnan Sarwar

September 11 happened as soon as I"d gotten to my first regiment. It was just after ...

War

The Futility of Cleanliness

Adnan Sarwar

The Army was obsessed with cleanliness. We"d crane our necks around the bottoms of toi...

War

In the Shadow of the Yanks

Adnan Sarwar

Everything was bigger with the Yanks: their soldiers, their food, and their imaginations. ...

War

Building Bridges and Making Soldiers

Adnan Sarwar

The Royal Engineers did anything the Army needed"from building bridges to crossing riv...

War

Ours Was Not to Reason Why

Adnan Sarwar

Tony Blair was interrupted at the Leveson Inquiry last week by a protestor calling him a w...

War

A Millionaire in the Danger Zone

Adnan Sarwar

Sunil* was a well-fed Indian shipping millionaire. I"d heard about him through people ...

War

The Bore War

Adnan Sarwar

War is supposed to be full of action. Men are supposed to dive over barbed wire and charge...

War

Last Letters

Adnan Sarwar

"I want you to shoot me," he said. He must have been joking. It was a struggle to...

War

Too Far From the Front Line to Care

Adnan Sarwar

The Afghanistan war started over ten years ago. We"ve seen maps and graphics on the ne...

War

Ground Rules for a Perfect Society

Adnan Sarwar

If you were drawing up plans on how to run a private members" club, a larger society, ...

Daniel Craig as James Bond

War

Spies Unlike Me

Adnan Sarwar

Some soldiers are meant to join the elite forces, become spies, and swing through windows ...

War

I Lost My Virginity in the British Army

Adnan Sarwar

Sex and soldiers are the forces of life and death crashing into one another. It gets anima...

War

The Uniforms Came in One Color

Adnan Sarwar

"They"re racist and they"ll kick your head in," a white man named Paul war...

War

After the Trauma

Adnan Sarwar

We used to joke about PTSD in the army. We used to call it the "new backache," mea...

War

The Elephant on the Tube

Adnan Sarwar

He saw people stare, but he looked right through them. His mind was on something satisfyin...

Jessica Lynch

War

Many Are Called, But Few Are Heroes

Adnan Sarwar

The word "hero" should not apply to every man and woman serving in the military. T...

Bravery Hurts

The Value of the Guiding Hand

Adnan Sarwar

Leaning over the bar in London's Union Jack Club drinking rum, I stood on legs of flesh an...

War

How a Soldier Thinks

Adnan Sarwar

There are over seven thousand dead in Syria now. What are the Syrian soldiers thinking? Th...

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