Encouragement Quote by Doug Stanton

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

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

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

“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

“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

“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

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

'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

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

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

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 Afghanistan, one…

— Doug Stanton