Michael Hastings famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The simple and terrifying reality, forbidden from discussion in America, was that despite spending $600 billion a year on the military, despite having the best fighting force the world had ever known, they were getting their ***** kicked by illiterate peasants who made bombs out of manure and wood.
-- Michael Hastings

#Military #Fighting #Simple
I think when war becomes your life, I think its very difficult to have the proper perspective to be able to create a fully balanced policy.
-- Michael Hastings

#War #Thinking #Perspective
I thought Gen. McChrystal was unfireable, that his position was secure.
-- Michael Hastings

#Position
I want to be the greatest investigative reporter of my generation.
-- Michael Hastings

#Generations #Want
During the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the military conducted only a handful of drone missions.
-- Michael Hastings

#Military #Iraq #Invasion
By the second sentence of a pitch, the entirety of the story should be explained.
-- Michael Hastings

#Stories #Should #Sentences
Despite failing to get bin Laden, the U.S. government and media portrayed the early Afghanistan war as a great victory.
-- Michael Hastings

#War #Media #Government
General McChrystal wanted to be on the cover of Rolling Stone.
-- Michael Hastings

#Stones #Rolling #Rolling Stones
The fact is, psychiatric help is not widely available to CIA agents - and as in the military, there is a stigma attached to admitting post-traumatic stress.
-- Michael Hastings

#Military #Stress #Admitting
The idea of aerial military surveillance dates back to the Civil War, when both the Union and the Confederacy used hot-air balloons to spy on the other side, tracking troop movements and helping to direct artillery fire.
-- Michael Hastings

#Military #War #Air
When writing for a mass audience, put a fact in every sentence.
-- Michael Hastings

#Writing #Facts #Mass
Look, I went into journalism to do journalism, not advertising,
-- Michael Hastings

#Looks #Advertising #Journalism
A woman I loved [Andi Parhamovich] was killed in Baghdad in January 2007 â€“ al-Qaeda in Iraq took credit for it â€¦ The memorial service with me crying over an empty coffin.
-- Michael Hastings

#Iraq #Memorial #Coffins
The general's staff is a handpicked collection of killers, spies, geniuses, patriots, political operators and outright maniacs. There's a former head of British Special Forces, two Navy Seals, an Afghan Special Forces commando, a lawyer, two fighter pilots and at least two dozen combat veterans and counterinsurgency experts. They jokingly refer to themselves as Team America, taking the name from the South Park-esque sendup of military cluelessness, and they pride themselves on their can-do attitude and their disdain for authority.
-- Michael Hastings

#Attitude #Team #Military

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