“(Ali was horrified and enraged when in March of 2001 the Taliban dynamited the stone Buddhas that had stood watch over the town for centuries. What man had the right to write the future by blowing up the past?)” — Doug Stanton Copy Share Image
I like to tell stories about people trying to make the right, difficult decision at the least opportune moment... People in a crucible of… — Doug Stanton Copy Share
Instead of large-scale occupations, we should rely on small units of Special Forces who have proved it's infinitely more effective to work with a… — Doug Stanton Copy Share
When I look at Lake Michigan each July, I imagine the men of the Indianapolis visible on the horizon; dark heads, struggling arms, a… — Doug Stanton Copy Share
“On a training mission, he’d watched as Nightstalker pilots cut their own landing zone using the rotors of the helicopter as giant hedge clippers.… — Doug Stanton Copy Share
“McCoy, drained and hollow-eyed, couldn't take his eyes off the life vest belonging to the boy who'd slipped away from the group during the… — Doug Stanton Copy Share
“On November 5, to kick off the final, coordinated assault on Baluch, Stu Mansfield, positioned with Atta at the warlord’s mountaintop compound, ordered the… — Doug Stanton Copy Share
Most audiences are being attracted to '12 Strong' because of what they might expect to see from a movie like this, which is that… — Doug Stanton Copy Share
'Horse Soldiers' is the untold story of how a small band of U.S. Special Forces soldiers secretly entered Afghanistan in 2001, just five weeks… — Doug Stanton Copy Share
Writing about conflict has provided these dramatic opportunities to talk about really substantial moments in a person's life. I'm not writing about superheroes; I'm… — Doug Stanton Copy Share
When I first met the survivors of the Indianapolis in 1999 while writing a book about them, their story - the last major action… — Doug Stanton Copy Share
Of all the places I've been while talking to audiences about the U.S. Army's 5th Special Forces Group and their story in Afghanistan, one… — Doug Stanton Copy Share
While researching 'Horse Soldiers,' I conducted over 100 interviews in the U.S. and in Afghanistan, and in Afghanistan, I walked and studied key sites… — Doug Stanton Copy Share
Robert Frost had a house in Bennington, Vermont, and I had a friend, the poet Mary Ruefle, who was the caretaker of it when… — Doug Stanton Copy Share
That's the potential power of a single voice - a neighbor's, a teacher's, a parent's, a friend's. It can change you, make you feel… — Doug Stanton Copy Share
