Road to Baghdad
Behind Enemy Lines: The Adventures of an American Soldier in the Gulf War
In 1990, U.S. Army Major Martin Stanton was a military advisor stationed in Saudi Arabia. Encouraged by the Army to broaden his cultural horizons, and assured by the U.S. embassy that Kuwait was perfectly safe, Stanton took off for a long weekend there. Roused by gunshots his first night in Kuwait City, Stanton looked out the window and discovered he was in the middle of a full-scale invasion.
Iraq’s Gulf War had begun—and in the Kuwait City Sheraton, overlooking the entire western part of town, the United States had inadvertabtly encouraged an Army officer to go "behing enemy lines". As fighting continued and bullets hit the hotel’s facade, Stanton began phoning in intelligence reports to his superiors. He noted the…
Martin Stanton is a retired US Army colonel and the author of Somalia on $5 a Day: A Soldier’s Story and Road to Baghdad. He has written articles for publications such as Infantry, Armor, and the Marine Corps Gazette, among others. Colonel Stanton works at the Department of Defense in Tampa, Florida.
Somalia on $5 a Day
Martin Stanton