Editing David Stirling (section)

=== Mercenary and arms dealer ===
After the war, Stirling organised deals to provide British weapons and military personnel to other countries, such as [[Saudi Arabia]], for various privatised foreign policy operations.<ref name="archive.org">Adam Curtis, [[The Mayfair Set]] {{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/AdamCurtis_TheMayfairSet |title=Archived copy |access-date=12 June 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140325163150/https://archive.org/details/AdamCurtis_TheMayfairSet |archive-date=25 March 2014 }}</ref> Along with several associates, Stirling formed Watchguard International Ltd, initially with offices in [[Sloane Street]] (where the Chelsea Hotel later opened), latterly in [[South Audley Street]] in [[Mayfair]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ygxbDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT77|title=Operation Lock and the War on Rhino Poaching|first=John|last= Hanks |year= 2015|publisher=Penguin Random House|isbn=978-1770227309}}</ref>

Business was chiefly with the Gulf States. He was linked, along with Denys Rowley, to a failed attempt to overthrow the [[Libya]]n ruler [[Muammar Gaddafi]] in 1970 or 1971. Stirling was the founder of “[[private military company]]” KAS International, also known as KAS Enterprises.<ref name='rhino'>{{cite news|title=Pretoria inquiry confirms secret battle for the rhino|date=18 January 1996|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/pretoria-inquiry-confirms-secret-battle-for-the-rhino-1324553.html|work=[[The Independent]]|access-date=13 February 2008|location=London}}</ref>

Watchguard International Ltd was a [[private military company]], registered in Jersey in 1965 by Stirling and [[John Woodhouse (British Army officer)|John Woodhouse]]. Woodhouse's first assignment was to go to Yemen to report on the state of the royalist forces when a cease-fire was declared. At the same time Stirling was cultivating his contacts in the Iranian government and exploring the chances of obtaining work in Africa. The company operated in [[Zambia]] and in [[Sierra Leone]], providing training teams and advising on security matters, but its founders' maverick ways of doing business caused its eventual downfall. Woodhouse resigned as Director of Operations after a series of disagreements and Stirling ceased to take an active part in 1972.<ref name="sas">''The SAS: Savage Wars of Peace: 1947 to the Present'', by Anthony Kemp, John Murray, 1994, pp. 88–89{{ISBN missing}}</ref>