[T]his story is a bit like the Jetsons meet the Flintstones. These are the guys you don’t see on the news…If you remember pictures of American servicemen on horseback riding in suglasses and scarves across their faces across the Afghan plain. They’re US Special Forces…,” says Doug Stanton, author of Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan.