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Horse Soldiers is the dramatic account of a small band of Special Forces soldiers who secretly entered Afghanistan following 9/11 and rode to war on horses against the Taliban. Outnumbered forty to one, they pursued the enemy army across the mountainous Afghanistan terrain and, after a series of intense battles, captured the city of Mazar-i-Sharif, which was strategically essential to defeat their opponent throughout the country.
The bone-weary American soldiers were welcomed as liberators as they rode into the city, and the streets thronged with Afghans overjoyed that the Taliban regime had been overthrown.
Then the action took a wholly unexpected turn. During a surrender of six hundred Taliban troops, the Horse Soldiers were ambushed by the would-be POWs. Dangerously overpowered, they fought for their lives in the citys immense fortress, Qala-i-Janghi, or the House of War. At risk were the military gains of the entire campaign: if the soldiers perished or were captured, the entire effort to outmaneuver the Taliban was likely doomed.
Deeply researched and beautifully written, Stantons account of the Americans quest to liberate an oppressed people touches the mythic. The soldiers on horses combined ancient strategies of cavalry warfare with twenty-first-century aerial bombardment technology to perform a seemingly impossible feat. Moreover, their careful effort to win the hearts of local townspeople proved a valuable lesson for Americas ongoing efforts in Afghanistan
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In Harms Way:
The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis
and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors
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ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-8823-8
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This book is dedicated to the men and women
of Fifth Special Forces Group and their families.
And to my family,
Anne, John, Kate, and Will;
and my parents,
Bonnie and Derald Stanton;
and Deb, Tony, Genessa, and Wylie Demin.
And, finally, Grant and Paulette Parsons.
I also wish to acknowledge a heartfelt debt of gratitude to
Sloan Harris, Colin Harrison, and Blake Ringsmuth. None finer.
Without their unwavering support,
this book would not have been written.
I am the kit fox,
I live in uncertainty.
If there is anything difficult,
If there is anything dangerous to do,
That is mine.
Sioux warriors song
The events recounted in this book are based on more than one hundred interviews of Afghan soldiers, Afghan civilians, U.S. soldiers, and U.S. civilians. These interviews, some of which were in-depth and stretched over a series of days, took place in Afghanistan and in the United States. Most dwelled on the subjects firsthand recollections of events related in this book. In addition, the author traveled in the region described in these pages and in particular inspected the Qala-i-Janghi Fortress. The authors research also included examination of personal journals, previously published media accounts, contemporaneous photography, and voluminous official U.S. military logs and histories.
Many of the events described in Horse Soldiers transpired under extreme circumstances, some of them traumatic to those who experienced them. For these reasons and perhaps because memory is often imperfect, the recollections of some of the participants conflicted at times. While the author has made every attempt to present an accurate portrait of the events involved, he has related the version that seemed most consistent with other accounts.
AFGHAN GENERALS
Abdul Rashid Dostum
Atta Mohammed Noor
Naji Mohammed Mohaqeq
CIA PARAMILITARY OFFICERS
Mike Spann
Dave OlsonJ. J. Sawyer
Garth Rogers
U.S. SPECIAL FORCES COMMANDERS
Major General Geoffrey Lambert, United States Special Forces Command, Fort Bragg
Colonel John Mulholland, Fifth Special Forces Group, Fort Campbell and K2, Uzbekistan
Lieutenant Colonel Max Bowers, Third Battalion, Fifth Special Forces Group, Fort Campbell and Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan
CAPTAIN MITCH NELSONS TEAM (RIDING WITH DOSTUM)
Captain Mitch Nelson, team leader
Chief Warrant Officer Cal Spencer, assistant team leader
Sergeant First Class Sam Diller, intelligence operations
Sergeant First Class Bill Bennett
Sergeant First Class Scott Black
Sergeant First Class Sean Coffers
Sergeant First Class Ben Milo
Master Sergeant Pat Essex
Staff Sergeant Charles Jones
Staff Sergeant Patrick Remington
Sergeant First Class Vern Michaels
Staff Sergeant Fred Falls
Staff Sergeant Sonny Tatum, Air Force combat controller
Staff Sergeant Mick Winehouse, Air Force combat controller
TURKISH SCHOOLHOUSE, MAZAR-I-SHARIF, AFGHANISTAN
Admiral Bert Calland, III, Special Operations Command Central
Lieutenant Colonel Max Bowers
Major Kurt Sonntag, executive officer
Major Mark Mitchell, ground commander
Major Steve Billings
Captain Paul Syverson
Captain Kevin Leahy
Captain Craig McFarland
Captain Andrew Johnson
Captain Gus Forrest
Sergeant Major Martin Homer
Master Sergeant Roger Palmer
First Sergeant Dave Betz
Sergeant First Class Pete Bach
Sergeant First Class Bob Roberts
Sergeant First Class Chuck Roberts
Staff Sergeant Jerome Carl
U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Jason Kubanek
Sergeant First Class Ted Barrow
Sergeant First Class Ernest Bates
Staff Sergeant Malcolm Victors, Air Force combat controller
Master Sergeant Burt Docks, Air Force combat controller
Captain Don Winslow
CAPTAIN DEAN NOSOROGS TEAM (RIDING WITH ATTA)
Captain Dean Nosorog, team leader
Chief Warrant Officer Stu Mansfield, assistant team leader
Sergeant First Class Darrin Clous, intelligence operations
Master Sergeant Brad Highland
Staff Sergeant Jerry Booker
Sergeant First Class James Gold
Sergeant First Class Mark House
Staff Sergeant Brett Walden
Sergeant First Class Martin Graves
Staff Sergeant Evan Colt
Staff Sergeant Francis McCourt
Sergeant First Class Brian Lyle
Staff Sergeant Donny Boyle, Air Force combat controller
SBS (SPECIAL BOAT SERVICE)
Chief Petty Officer Steph Bass, U.S. Navy (deployed with SBS)
MEMBERS OF U.S. ARMY TENTH MOUNTAIN DIVISION WHO TOOK PART IN THE RESCUE AT QALA-I-JANGHI BOMBING
Staff Sergeant Thomas Abbott
Private First Class Eric Andreason
Private First Class Thomas Beers
Sergeant Jerry Higley
Private First Class Michael Hoke
First Lieutenant Bradley Maroyka
Specialist Roland Miskimon
Sergeant William Sakisat
Specialist Andrew Scott
HELICOPTER PILOTS AND CREW, 160TH SPECIAL OPERATIONS AVIATION REGIMENT (SOAR), K2, UZBEKISTAN
Aaron Smith
Jim Zeeland
Greg Gibson
Carson Millhouse
John Garfield
Ron White
Larry Canfield
Donald Pleasant
Dewey Donner
Will Ferguson
Carl Macy
Kyle Johnson
Tom Dingman
Bill Ricks
Jerry Edwards
Ron Mason
Steve Porter
Barry Oberlin
Vic Boswell
Ross Peters
Alex McGee
Qala-i-Janghi Fortress
Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan
November 2425, 2001
Trouble came in the night, riding out of the dust and the darkness. Trouble rolled past the refugee camp, past the tattered tents shuddering in the moonlight, the lone cry of a baby driving high into the sky, like a nail. Sunrise was no better; at sunrise, trouble was still there, bristling with AKs and RPGs, engines idling, waiting to roll into the city. Waiting.
These were the baddest of the bad, the real masters of mayhem, the death dealers with God stamped firmly in their minds. The city groaned and shook to life. Soon everyone knew trouble had arrived at the gates of the city.
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