Chuck de Caro
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Charles John “Chuck” de Caro (born 1950 in [Providence, Rhode Island]]) is an American
strategist
and futurist who originated the term SOFTWAR which is defined as: “The hostile use of global visual media to shape another society’s will by changing its view of reality.”
His original SOFTWAR thesis was published in 1991 by the Providence Journal Bulletin and led to lectures, books and articles on Information Warfare, which he continues to produce to the present day.
and then transitioned to journalism with the Providence Journal Bulletin, the Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph, and the (New Orleans) Vieux Carre’ Courier.
In the mid 1970's, de Caro became a television reporter with smaller local TV stations, most notably WTSP-TV in Tampa, Florida, where he reported live from inside the eye of Hurricane David
from a USAF WC-130H Hurricane Hunter aircraft. While at WTSP-TV, he also became one of the first journalists to fly both the F-15 Eagle
and F-16 Fighting Falcon
fighter jets.
While researching and writing a novel titled "Spacewar: The Enterprise Affair," about military use of the Space Shuttle, de Caro was given the opportunity to participate in many segments of NASA astronaut training. Besides centrifuge rides and practice in the Space Shuttle EVA suit, he completed some 600 zero-gravity parabolas aboard NASA's "Vomit Comet"
along with astronauts Robert. L. Gibson
, Sally Ride
, and Steve Hawley . The then-Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, Thomas B. Ross, liked de Caro's project so much that he recommended that the US Air Force loan him a T-38 Talon
jet trainer and an instructor pilot to simulate Space Shuttle approaches and landings. The resultant article, "Flying the White Rocket" was published by Challenge Publications "Air Combat Magazine - Special Edition" in 1980. He continued his association with NASA, flying more zero-G flights to report on the new Space Shuttle airlock, even interviewing Astronaut Jerry L. Ross
while in weightless mode.
In 1981 he began working WPIX-TV and Independent News Network in New York City. Two years later he joined Cable News Network as a Special Assignment Correspondent. As a lone combat reporter/cameraman and fluent in Spanish, he would spend up to nine weeks at a time in the jungles of Nicaragua covering the operations of ARDE
guerillas led by Eden Pastora
(aka Commandante Cero) and Hugo Spadafora
.
During the Grenada invasion of 1983
, he and CNN founding Vice President Ted Kavanau, who acted as his cameraman, sailed and paddled into Grenada, to get around the US Department of Defense imposed news embargo while that island was being invaded. Their confrontation with the US Navy would end up as a front page photograph in the New York Times.
Mr. de Caro and his cameraman, Ken Kelsch , another former member of US Army Special Forces, used their military training to slip in and out of Suriname in 1984, to do exclusive CNN reports on American mercenaries and Surinamese guerillas trying to overthrow the Bouterse regime. Mr. de Caro also reported and produced investigative documentaries on illegal drug operations, foreign espionage and criminal gangs. He also did CNN documentaries on Radio Frequency Weapons, the Bentwaters UFO Incident and the First Trans-Atlantic Air Rally. He also parachuted with USAF Combat Control Teams and US Army Rangers to generate vivid CNN reports on those military units.
In 1985 de Caro piloted a jet with the first US Navy female aviator assigned to an Aggressor Squadron (VF-43), Lieutenant Linda “Peaches” Shaffer. With CNN cameraman nppa. org/news_and_events/news/2008/05/biello. html Mark Biello video taping from a chase plane, de Caro successfully flew through the entire out-of-control flight syllabus which included spins, inverted spins, and even an “uncorking” maneuver using an inverted snap roll at the top of a loop with forward stick called a "Lomcevak
". Flying with the Royal Navy in 1986, de Caro was the first American civilian to graduate from the Royal Navy's Water Survival School at Seafield Park. He later flew numerous sorties in Hawker Hunter
jet fighters with Commander Christopher Hunneyball, RN, who had been awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his efforts in the Falklands War.
His CNN documentary “The Zap Gap” and an article of the same name published in The Atlantic Monthly in March 1987 caused a stir in the Pentagon because it delineated the vulnerabilities of many US weapons systems to High Energy Radio Frequency (HERF) and Directed Energy Weapons (DEW).
While writing a front page story for the independent Army Times newspaper he became the first non-government civilian to attend and graduate from the US Army Air Assault School
and was awarded the coveted Air Assault Badge
. His colleague and friend, CNN Anchor Lynne Russell
pinned on his air assault badge upon his graduation from the course.
. He also worked with Donald P. Bellisaro in two Belisarius Productions TV dramas: Quantum Leap, and JAG
. He also did un-credited technical advising on the series First Monday
and NCIS
. Mr. de Caro joined the Screen Actors Guild and played himself in the JAG TV series, appearing with actors Catherine Bell
, Karri Turner
, and Andrea Thompson
.
In 1993, while working as a futurist and consultant to the AAI Corporation, de Caro created a theoretical, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle called VITO (Very Intelligent Tactical Observer) based on the Charles H. Zimmerman low-aspect ratio wing for presentation at the conference of the Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) VITO’s futuristic characteristics included UAV satellite control and active camouflage, which were brought to life years later in the Predator UAV and Boeing Bird of Prey.
As an independent researcher he has worked intermittently with the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment
for the past two decades, on an array of projects, including the creation of the world’s first military “Virtual Unit.” The unit, called AMOEBA, was developed using National Guard volunteers under Colonel (later Major General) Bruce Lawlor.
In January 2011, de Caro’s books, articles, DoD studies and videos on SOFTWAR and Information Warfare were integrated into the Military Science curriculum at a ceremony at his alma mater, the United States Air Force Academy. During that ceremony he was “coined”
by both the Dean of USAFA, Brigadier General Dana H. Born and the Military Science Department Head, Colonel Thomas A. Drohan as token of regard by the institution.
He is the one of co-authors of textbooks on Information Operations and Cybernetic-Warfare, published by AFCEA International Press and which are used by war colleges around the world. The titles include:
Cyberwar: Security, Strategy and Conflict in the Information Age, Cyberwar 2.0: Myths, Mysteries and Reality, and Cyberwar 3.0: Human Factors in Information Operations and Future Conflict.
Mr. de Caro lectures regularly at the National Defense University, the National Defense Intelligence College, and the NATO School in Oberammergau, Germany. He has also lectured at the USAF Air War College, Air Command and Staff College, USAFA, US Army War College, US Army Command and General Staff College, Naval Post Graduate School, the Swedish National Defense College, and the Netherlands Defense College.
In cooperation with the former Robert R. McCormick foundation CEO, Brigadier General David L. Grange, USA (ret)
and others, de Caro has been one of the co-authors of the following McCormick publications: From Gun Violence to Civic Health: A “Whole of City” Approach to Creating Chicago’s Future © 2009; Whole of Nation Global Engagement: Confronting Irregular Challenges in the 21st Century © 2008; Whole of Nation Approach to Irregular Conflict / Warfare © 2008; Russia’s Attack on Georgia: What to do with the Awakened Bear © 2008; Irregular Warfare Support Operation – Establishing Area Influence Operations in the IW Battlespace: Using IW Support Base Networks © 2007; Confronting Iran – Securing Iraq’s Border: An Irregular Warfare Concept © 2007; Understanding the Mission of US International Broadcasting © 2007 Confronting Iran: US Options © 2007; and Forging an Iran Strategy © 2006
His current book-in-progress is called KILLING AL QAEDA and evolved from a presentation of the same name given at the prestigious DoD-sponsored Command and Control Research Program .
This later work brought him to prominence as he used his theories to assist in the US Government in the on-going conflict with Al Qaeda. An ongoing research project is being conducted under a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the military.
de Caro is also working on a project similar to the original AEROBUREAU concept called S.A.G.E. (Se Air Ground Evalutions) designed for rapid damage assessment and communications in large scale disasters.
A Chapter of the book, The Next World War by James Adams describes de Caro’s strategic thesis and style of instruction at the NDU, while the article “Winning CNN Wars” by Frank Stech in the US Army War College Journal "Parameters" delineates more of his ideas.
Mr. de Caro's persona, described by James Adams in the book, “The Next World War” as “no-nonsense, shoot-from-the-hip-style and rugged, masculine looks” led speaker Gary Sharp of the Mantech International Aegis Research Corporation to describe him at a conference at Duke University’s Centre on Law, Ethics and National Security as: “...an entrepreneur, an adventurer that I'd read about in a novel somewhere…"
• Video Presentation by Chuck de Caro on SOFTWAR
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strategist
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and futurist who originated the term SOFTWAR which is defined as: “The hostile use of global visual media to shape another society’s will by changing its view of reality.”
His original SOFTWAR thesis was published in 1991 by the Providence Journal Bulletin and led to lectures, books and articles on Information Warfare, which he continues to produce to the present day.
Education
de Caro was educated at the Marion Military Institute, in Marion, Alabama, the US Air Force Academy, in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and the University of Rhode Island, in Kingston, Rhode Island.Journalism
He later followed various career paths including service with the 20th Special Forces Group20th Special Forces Group (United States)
The 20th Special Forces Group or 20th SFG is one of two Army National Guard groups for the United States Army Special Forces...
and then transitioned to journalism with the Providence Journal Bulletin, the Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph, and the (New Orleans) Vieux Carre’ Courier.
In the mid 1970's, de Caro became a television reporter with smaller local TV stations, most notably WTSP-TV in Tampa, Florida, where he reported live from inside the eye of Hurricane David
Hurricane David
Hurricane David was the fourth named tropical cyclone, second hurricane, and first major hurricane of the 1979 Atlantic hurricane season. A Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale, David was among the deadliest hurricanes in the latter half of the 20th century, killing...
from a USAF WC-130H Hurricane Hunter aircraft. While at WTSP-TV, he also became one of the first journalists to fly both the F-15 Eagle
F-15 Eagle
The McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle is a twin-engine, all-weather tactical fighter designed by McDonnell Douglas to gain and maintain air superiority in aerial combat. It is considered among the most successful modern fighters with over 100 aerial combat victories with no losses in dogfights...
and F-16 Fighting Falcon
F-16 Fighting Falcon
The General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon is a multirole jet fighter aircraft originally developed by General Dynamics for the United States Air Force . Designed as an air superiority day fighter, it evolved into a successful all-weather multirole aircraft. Over 4,400 aircraft have been built since...
fighter jets.
While researching and writing a novel titled "Spacewar: The Enterprise Affair," about military use of the Space Shuttle, de Caro was given the opportunity to participate in many segments of NASA astronaut training. Besides centrifuge rides and practice in the Space Shuttle EVA suit, he completed some 600 zero-gravity parabolas aboard NASA's "Vomit Comet"
Vomit Comet
A Reduced Gravity Aircraft is a type of fixed-wing aircraft that briefly provides a nearly weightless environment in which to train astronauts, conduct research and film motion pictures....
along with astronauts Robert. L. Gibson
Robert L. Gibson
Robert Lee "Hoot" Gibson is a retired Captain and Naval Aviator in the United States Navy and a retired NASA astronaut.-Personal:...
, Sally Ride
Sally Ride
Sally Kristen Ride is an American physicist and a former NASA astronaut. Ride joined NASA in 1978, and in 1983 became the first American woman—and then-youngest American, at 32—to enter space...
, and Steve Hawley . The then-Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, Thomas B. Ross, liked de Caro's project so much that he recommended that the US Air Force loan him a T-38 Talon
T-38 Talon
The Northrop T-38 Talon is a twin-engine supersonic jet trainer. It was the world's first supersonic trainer and is also the most produced. The T-38 remains in service as of 2011 in air forces throughout the world....
jet trainer and an instructor pilot to simulate Space Shuttle approaches and landings. The resultant article, "Flying the White Rocket" was published by Challenge Publications "Air Combat Magazine - Special Edition" in 1980. He continued his association with NASA, flying more zero-G flights to report on the new Space Shuttle airlock, even interviewing Astronaut Jerry L. Ross
Jerry L. Ross
Jerry Lynn Ross is a United States Air Force officer and a former NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of seven Space Shuttle missions, making him the record holder for most spaceflights .-Personal:Ross is married to the former Karen S. Pearson of Sheridan, Indiana. They have two children...
while in weightless mode.
In 1981 he began working WPIX-TV and Independent News Network in New York City. Two years later he joined Cable News Network as a Special Assignment Correspondent. As a lone combat reporter/cameraman and fluent in Spanish, he would spend up to nine weeks at a time in the jungles of Nicaragua covering the operations of ARDE
Democratic Revolutionary Alliance
The Democratic Revolutionary Alliance were the Southern Front guerrillas in Nicaragua that fought against the Marxist elements of the original Sandinista Revolution in 1979...
guerillas led by Eden Pastora
Edén Pastora
Edén Atanacio Pastora Gómez is a Nicaraguan politician and former guerrilla who ran for president as the candidate of the Alternative for Change party in the 2006 general elections...
(aka Commandante Cero) and Hugo Spadafora
Hugo Spadafora
Hugo Spadafora Franco was a Italian and Panamanian doctor and guerrilla fighter in Guinea-Bissau and Nicaragua. He criticized the military in Panama, which led to his murder in 1985....
.
During the Grenada invasion of 1983
Invasion of Grenada
The Invasion of Grenada, codenamed Operation Urgent Fury, was a 1983 United States-led invasion of Grenada, a Caribbean island nation with a population of about 100,000 located north of Venezuela. Triggered by a military coup which had ousted a four-year revolutionary government, the invasion...
, he and CNN founding Vice President Ted Kavanau, who acted as his cameraman, sailed and paddled into Grenada, to get around the US Department of Defense imposed news embargo while that island was being invaded. Their confrontation with the US Navy would end up as a front page photograph in the New York Times.
Mr. de Caro and his cameraman, Ken Kelsch , another former member of US Army Special Forces, used their military training to slip in and out of Suriname in 1984, to do exclusive CNN reports on American mercenaries and Surinamese guerillas trying to overthrow the Bouterse regime. Mr. de Caro also reported and produced investigative documentaries on illegal drug operations, foreign espionage and criminal gangs. He also did CNN documentaries on Radio Frequency Weapons, the Bentwaters UFO Incident and the First Trans-Atlantic Air Rally. He also parachuted with USAF Combat Control Teams and US Army Rangers to generate vivid CNN reports on those military units.
In 1985 de Caro piloted a jet with the first US Navy female aviator assigned to an Aggressor Squadron (VF-43), Lieutenant Linda “Peaches” Shaffer. With CNN cameraman nppa. org/news_and_events/news/2008/05/biello. html Mark Biello video taping from a chase plane, de Caro successfully flew through the entire out-of-control flight syllabus which included spins, inverted spins, and even an “uncorking” maneuver using an inverted snap roll at the top of a loop with forward stick called a "Lomcevak
Lomcevak
A Lomcovák is an aerobatic maneuver that can be performed by an aeroplane. The word originates from the Slovak aerobatic pilot 's mechanic, who at a 1958 air show in Brno, Czechoslovakia jokingly called Bezák's tumble maneuvers "Lomcovaks" when asked by journalists what they were.According to...
". Flying with the Royal Navy in 1986, de Caro was the first American civilian to graduate from the Royal Navy's Water Survival School at Seafield Park. He later flew numerous sorties in Hawker Hunter
Hawker Hunter
The Hawker Hunter is a subsonic British jet aircraft developed in the 1950s. The single-seat Hunter entered service as a manoeuvrable fighter aircraft, and later operated in fighter-bomber and reconnaissance roles in numerous conflicts. Two-seat variants remained in use for training and secondary...
jet fighters with Commander Christopher Hunneyball, RN, who had been awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his efforts in the Falklands War.
His CNN documentary “The Zap Gap” and an article of the same name published in The Atlantic Monthly in March 1987 caused a stir in the Pentagon because it delineated the vulnerabilities of many US weapons systems to High Energy Radio Frequency (HERF) and Directed Energy Weapons (DEW).
While writing a front page story for the independent Army Times newspaper he became the first non-government civilian to attend and graduate from the US Army Air Assault School
United States Army Air Assault School
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and was awarded the coveted Air Assault Badge
Air Assault Badge
The Air Assault Badge, pictured to the right, is awarded by the U.S. Army for successful completion of the Air Assault School, a two-week course. The course includes three phases of instruction involving U.S. Army rotary wing aircraft: combat air assault operations; rigging and slingload...
. His colleague and friend, CNN Anchor Lynne Russell
Lynne Russell
Lynne Russell was a radio host on the Toronto AM radio station 1010 AM CFRB News Radio, part of the Astral Media...
pinned on his air assault badge upon his graduation from the course.
Television
Mr. de Caro became a technical advisor and on-air consultant in the 1990s to three TV Series magazines: Hard Copy, Sightings, and EncountersEncounters (TV series)
Encounters: The Hidden Truth was an hour-long TV series that featured real-life stories of paranormal phenomena. The format featured a host and a team of reporters presenting 3 or 4 stories per episode dealing with UFOs, crop circles, exorcism, prophets, psychics, reincarnation, and other...
. He also worked with Donald P. Bellisaro in two Belisarius Productions TV dramas: Quantum Leap, and JAG
JAG (TV series)
JAG is an American adventure/legal drama television show that was produced by Belisarius Productions, in association with Paramount Network Television and, for the first season only, NBC Productions...
. He also did un-credited technical advising on the series First Monday
First Monday
First Monday was a short-lived U.S. television midseason replacement drama centered on the U.S. Supreme Court. Like another 2002 series, "The Court," it was inspired by the prominent role the Supreme Court played in settling the 2000 presidential election...
and NCIS
NCIS (TV series)
NCIS, formerly known as NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service, is an American police procedural drama television series revolving around a fictional team of special agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, which conducts criminal investigations involving the U.S...
. Mr. de Caro joined the Screen Actors Guild and played himself in the JAG TV series, appearing with actors Catherine Bell
Catherine Bell
Catherine Lisa Bell is an American actress known for her role of Lieutenant Colonel Sarah MacKenzie of the television show JAG from 1997 to 2005...
, Karri Turner
Karri Turner
Karri Kathleen Turner is an American television actress who is best known for playing Lieutenant Harriet Sims on the television series JAG .Turner was born in Fort Worth, Texas, and raised in Bentonville, Arkansas...
, and Andrea Thompson
Andrea Thompson
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.
Development of SOFTWAR
In 1987, de Caro founded AEROBUREAU CORPORATION where he and his colleagues, designed, built, and operated the world's first flying news center based on a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_L-188Lockheed L-188 Electra0 turboprop transport aircraft. AEROBUREAU’s capabilities are described in the article “Sometimes the Dragon Wins” by Charles Dunlap and in the BBC HORIZON Documentary, “The I Bomb.” His CNN Special Assignments and AEROBUREAU experience led him to membership in the Radio-Television News Directors Association. After being briefed on AEROBUREAU, the US Navy thought so much of AEROBUREAU’s technology that they incorporated the concepts of using Pioneer RPV transmitters and stabilized electro-optical cameras into operational systems that are still in use today.In 1993, while working as a futurist and consultant to the AAI Corporation, de Caro created a theoretical, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle called VITO (Very Intelligent Tactical Observer) based on the Charles H. Zimmerman low-aspect ratio wing for presentation at the conference of the Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) VITO’s futuristic characteristics included UAV satellite control and active camouflage, which were brought to life years later in the Predator UAV and Boeing Bird of Prey.
As an independent researcher he has worked intermittently with the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment
Office of Net Assessment
The United States Department of Defense's Office of Net Assessment was created in 1973. The Director of Net Assessment is the principal staff assistant and advisor to the Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Defense on net assessment matters...
for the past two decades, on an array of projects, including the creation of the world’s first military “Virtual Unit.” The unit, called AMOEBA, was developed using National Guard volunteers under Colonel (later Major General) Bruce Lawlor.
In January 2011, de Caro’s books, articles, DoD studies and videos on SOFTWAR and Information Warfare were integrated into the Military Science curriculum at a ceremony at his alma mater, the United States Air Force Academy. During that ceremony he was “coined”
Challenge coin
A challenge coin is a small coin or medallion , bearing an organization’s insignia or emblem and carried by the organization’s members. They are given to prove membership when challenged and to enhance morale. In addition, they are also collected by service members.- Origins of the challenge coin...
by both the Dean of USAFA, Brigadier General Dana H. Born and the Military Science Department Head, Colonel Thomas A. Drohan as token of regard by the institution.
He is the one of co-authors of textbooks on Information Operations and Cybernetic-Warfare, published by AFCEA International Press and which are used by war colleges around the world. The titles include:
Cyberwar: Security, Strategy and Conflict in the Information Age, Cyberwar 2.0: Myths, Mysteries and Reality, and Cyberwar 3.0: Human Factors in Information Operations and Future Conflict.
Mr. de Caro lectures regularly at the National Defense University, the National Defense Intelligence College, and the NATO School in Oberammergau, Germany. He has also lectured at the USAF Air War College, Air Command and Staff College, USAFA, US Army War College, US Army Command and General Staff College, Naval Post Graduate School, the Swedish National Defense College, and the Netherlands Defense College.
Current Projects
Presently, de Caro works as a consultant for governments and organizations as well as a lecturer in and out of the United States. This work expands on his SOFTWAR theories and looks at the use of media and marketing in warfare.In cooperation with the former Robert R. McCormick foundation CEO, Brigadier General David L. Grange, USA (ret)
David L. Grange
David L. Grange is a retired United States Army Brigadier General, son of retired Lieutenant General David E. Grange, Jr. After retiring in 1999, David L. Grange served as the executive vice president and chief operating officer of the McCormick Foundation in Chicago. In September 2005, Grange...
and others, de Caro has been one of the co-authors of the following McCormick publications: From Gun Violence to Civic Health: A “Whole of City” Approach to Creating Chicago’s Future © 2009; Whole of Nation Global Engagement: Confronting Irregular Challenges in the 21st Century © 2008; Whole of Nation Approach to Irregular Conflict / Warfare © 2008; Russia’s Attack on Georgia: What to do with the Awakened Bear © 2008; Irregular Warfare Support Operation – Establishing Area Influence Operations in the IW Battlespace: Using IW Support Base Networks © 2007; Confronting Iran – Securing Iraq’s Border: An Irregular Warfare Concept © 2007; Understanding the Mission of US International Broadcasting © 2007 Confronting Iran: US Options © 2007; and Forging an Iran Strategy © 2006
His current book-in-progress is called KILLING AL QAEDA and evolved from a presentation of the same name given at the prestigious DoD-sponsored Command and Control Research Program .
This later work brought him to prominence as he used his theories to assist in the US Government in the on-going conflict with Al Qaeda. An ongoing research project is being conducted under a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the military.
de Caro is also working on a project similar to the original AEROBUREAU concept called S.A.G.E. (Se Air Ground Evalutions) designed for rapid damage assessment and communications in large scale disasters.
Honors
As a result of his work on SOFTWAR, Mr. de Caro was made an Honorary Member of the U.S. Army’s Psychological Operations Regiment in 2008 by order of the Secretary of the Army. He is a life-member of the Air Force Association, and has been a featured speaker at its annual Air and Space Conference and Technology Exhibition. He is also a member of the OSS Society and the National Rifle Association.A Chapter of the book, The Next World War by James Adams describes de Caro’s strategic thesis and style of instruction at the NDU, while the article “Winning CNN Wars” by Frank Stech in the US Army War College Journal "Parameters" delineates more of his ideas.
Mr. de Caro's persona, described by James Adams in the book, “The Next World War” as “no-nonsense, shoot-from-the-hip-style and rugged, masculine looks” led speaker Gary Sharp of the Mantech International Aegis Research Corporation to describe him at a conference at Duke University’s Centre on Law, Ethics and National Security as: “...an entrepreneur, an adventurer that I'd read about in a novel somewhere…"
External links
• Chuck de Caro at the Internet Movie Database• Video Presentation by Chuck de Caro on SOFTWAR