Doug Stanton

I like to tell stories about people trying to make the right, difficult decision at the least opportune moment... People in a…

— Doug Stanton

Instead of large-scale occupations, we should rely on small units of Special Forces who have proved it's infinitely more effective to work…

— Doug Stanton

When I look at Lake Michigan each July, I imagine the men of the Indianapolis visible on the horizon; dark heads, struggling…

— Doug Stanton

“On a training mission, he’d watched as Nightstalker pilots cut their own landing zone using the rotors of the helicopter as giant…

— Doug Stanton

“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…

— Doug Stanton

“On November 5, to kick off the final, coordinated assault on Baluch, Stu Mansfield, positioned with Atta at the warlord’s mountaintop compound,…

— Doug Stanton

Most audiences are being attracted to '12 Strong' because of what they might expect to see from a movie like this, which…

— Doug Stanton

'Horse Soldiers' is the untold story of how a small band of U.S. Special Forces soldiers secretly entered Afghanistan in 2001, just…

— Doug Stanton

Writing about conflict has provided these dramatic opportunities to talk about really substantial moments in a person's life. I'm not writing about…

— Doug Stanton

When I first met the survivors of the Indianapolis in 1999 while writing a book about them, their story - the last…

— Doug Stanton

I'm very dogged and patient.

— Doug Stanton

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…

— Doug Stanton

While researching 'Horse Soldiers,' I conducted over 100 interviews in the U.S. and in Afghanistan, and in Afghanistan, I walked and studied…

— Doug Stanton

Robert Frost had a house in Bennington, Vermont, and I had a friend, the poet Mary Ruefle, who was the caretaker of…

— Doug Stanton

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…

— Doug Stanton

I'm really interested in how people face existential crises and either overcome them or don't, and in how the human psyche responds.

— Doug Stanton

Simple words of encouragement subsequently saved many of the Indianapolis' sailors during their ordeal in the summer of 1945, and those men…

— Doug Stanton

During the writing of all of my books, I've learned that, most of all, people want to know that someone is listening…

— Doug Stanton

One of the reasons I wrote 'Horse Soldiers' was to understand the world my children would inherit after the events of 2001.

— Doug Stanton

Winters are so long in northern Michigan - nearly nine months of gray skies and deep snow - that summer comes as…

— Doug Stanton

The action of 'Horse Soldiers' is back-dropped by the story of how America went to war with little time to prepare -…

— Doug Stanton

Traverse City sits halfway between the North Pole and the Equator, and our summer days are long. The light seems to take…

— Doug Stanton

“(Ali was horrified and enraged when in March of 2001 the Taliban dynamited the stone Buddhas that had stood watch over the…

— Doug Stanton

Where does a man go when there are no more corners to turn, when he's running out of hope, out of luck,…

— Doug Stanton

Each summer, as Lake Michigan finally begins to warm, I think of the men of the World War II cruiser Indianapolis and…

— Doug Stanton