Door Quote by Ant Middleton

I was assigned a Taliban "minder" who followed me everywhere. But he couldn't follow me into homes where there were women, so I took…

— Lynsey Addario

On patrol through Taliban villages, the falsehoods and the jingoism that beat the drums of war back home were quickly made hollow, and all…

— Jake Auchincloss

“villages were regularly patrolled by the Taliban.”

— Eric Blehm

The Taliban are terrible shots. At the end of some long patrols, we'd be walking through the fields and get shot at - and…

— Kyle Carpenter

In Afghanistan, getting shot at was a regular occurrence. I viewed survival as a numbers game. As point man, every time I entered a…

— Ant Middleton

Some of the generals are saying, 'We're making progress. We are clearing an area.' But you really don't defeat the Taliban by clearing an…

— Colin Powell

I went to Afghanistan in '96 to write about terrorist training camps south of Jalalabad and Tora Bora, in the mountains. I was there…

— Sebastian Junger

As an infantry platoon commander in Helmand Province, my mission was to patrol three villages subject to Taliban influence. In tandem with the Afghan…

— Jake Auchincloss

Know what the Taliban leaders like to do for fun? Just sit around and get bombed.

— Jay Leno

With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

The rules of engagement when I was in Afghanistan were very flexible. When you're at war, you're at war.

— Brandon Webb

“Down there in the dark was the most technologically sophisticated navy strike force in the world, launching fighters and cruise missiles into Afghanistan...I had…

— Greg Mortenson