Clive Cussler Ghost Soldier Quotes

“Every life mattered, or none of them mattered.”
― Mike Maden, Clive Cussler Ghost Soldier

“The nail that sticks out gets hammered.”
― Mike Maden, Clive Cussler Ghost Soldier

“most of those three hundred thousand bought-and-paid-for Afghani soldiers never really existed. They were a “ghost” army of fake names, ranks, and serial numbers that corrupt Afghani politicians and warlords created to bilk the American taxpayer for billions of payroll dollars. Equally important, those nonexistent ghost soldiers had been armed to the teeth with expensive American military equipment. All told, analysts estimated the Taliban was now in possession of at least eighty billion dollars’ worth of weapons and supplies including forty-five UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters, twenty-five hundred armored Humvees, and sixteen thousand pairs of night vision goggles, along with tens of millions of rounds of ammunition for all those abandoned weapons systems.”
― Mike Maden, Clive Cussler Ghost Soldier