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"A thrilling action ride of the publication" (The NY Times E book Review) - from Jerry Bruckheimer in theaters almost everywhere January 19, 2018 - the New York Times best-selling, true-life bill of the US Special Causes team deployed to dangerous, war-ridden Afghanistan in the weeks following 9/11. Previously released as Horse Military, 12 Strong is the remarkable account of a small music group of Special Causes military who secretly came into Afghanistan following 9/11 and rode to war on horses up against the Taliban. Outnumbered 40 to one, they pursued the adversary army across the mountainous Afghanistan terrain and, after a series of intense battles, captured metropolis of Mazar-i-Sharif. The bone-weary American military were welcomed as liberators as they rode in to the city. Then the action had taken a wholly sudden turn. During a surrender of 600 Taliban troops, the Horse Military were ambushed by the would-be POWs. Dangerously overpowered, they fought because of their lives in the city's huge fortress, Qala-i-Janghi, or the House of War. In danger were the armed forces gains of the entire advertising campaign: if the military perished or were captured, the entire effort to outmaneuver the Taliban was likely doomed. "A riveting history of the daring and resourceful American warriors who rode into Afghanistan after 9/11 and waged war against Al Qaeda" (Tom Brokaw), Doug Stanton's bill details the mythic. The military on horses combined old strategies of cavalry warfare with 21st-century aerial bombardment technology to perform a seemingly impossible feat. Additionally, their careful effort to win the hearts of local townspeople proven a valuable lesson for America's ongoing work in Afghanistan. With "spellbinding...action loaded prose...The publication reads similar to a novel when compared to a military background...the Horse Soldier's secret quest remains the united states military's finest minute in what has since arguably been a muddled war" (USA TODAY).
