Ken Connor, writing in Ghost Force: The Secret History of the SAS, stated that KMS "took its name from the Swahili word for the movement of a snake through grass".
[4] During the Soviet–Afghan War KMS under authority from the British government was active in training small Afghan commando units from 1983 and continued for another four years mostly operating outside of Afghanistan in places such Oman and Saudi Arabia.
[7] The UK Foreign Office did not want to officially send military aid to Sri Lanka during its war with the Tamil Tigers for fear of jeopardising commercial and trade relations with India.
[1] John Cooley's 2002 book, Unholy Wars, stated that "It was indeed KMS ... to which the main British role in training holy warrior cadre for the Afghan jihad seems to have fallen.
[12] Although KMS closed down in the early 1990s, a subsidiary company, Saladin Security Ltd, has continued to operate in Afghanistan, where it was hired by the Canadian government in Kabul.