John Singlaub, a two-star general with a record of wartime deeds who resigned from the army in 1978 after openly criticising President Carter’s defence policy, and who later battled communism as a private citizen by funnelling weapons and money to rightist insurgents around the world, has died aged 100.
To his admirers, Singlaub was the consummate soldier – a brawny, ramrod-straight man of action with the wounds and decorations to prove the truth of the lore that surrounded him. He rose to the rank of major-general, and, over the course of three wars, he became known as a stealthy commander with a knack for leading death-defying missions in mountains and jungles.
