Stephen D Cook

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Stephen D Cook is a retired U.S. Army Special Forces officer, photographer, and author of the Precision Strike Trilogy and the Green Beret Field Manual nonfiction series.

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His work explores how decisions are made long before their consequences become visible. Growing up on farms and in blue-collar jobs across the Midwest gave him an early education in responsibility and effort. Those formative experiences—paired with twenty-five years in the Army—shaped the way he observes risk, preparation, and the quiet mechanics behind success and failure.

His fiction debut, "In the Shadows of the Sky," pulls back the curtain on modern warfare, authentic t
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The Standard in the Sky

There’s a photograph on my website that I keep coming back to.

On the surface, it’s simple: a clean horizon, a quiet composition, a moment that looks effortless. But I remember the patience it required—the narrow window where variables had to align perfectly before the shutter finally closed.

What pulls me back isn't the image itself, but the conditions that made it possible.

Lately, that pull has ta Read more of this blog post »
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“I CAN succeed! All that is possible to anyone is possible to me. I AM successful. I do succeed, for I am full of the Power of Success.”
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“Get out of your head & take action; you don’t have to know exactly where it’s going to take you, you just have to start with one thing that feels right and keep following right feeling things and see where they lead. Most answers reveal themselves from doing, not thinking.”
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“To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.”
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