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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 ...more

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Reflections on the 250th from America’s Oldest City

As the Nation prepares to mark its 250th birthday, I’m proud to be an American—particularly here in St. Augustine, Florida. A city founded more than two centuries before the Declaration of Independence, it carries a living sense of history that feels both grounding and inspiring.

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Stephen D. Cook wrote a new blog post The Real Tech Behind the Fiction: Introducing the FREE Operator’s Notebook If you’ve read In the Shadows of the Sky or The Silent Thunder, you know my Ethan Rourke trilogy is grounded in the realities of modern warfare and pr Read more of this blog post »
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Stephen Cook made a comment on Dee’s review of In the Shadows of the Sky (The Precision Strike Trilogy) " Dee, Thank you so much for reading "In the Shadows of the Sky" and for taking the time to review it! I'm thrilled that it landed so well with you. Best ...more "
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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.”
― Wallace D. Wattles, How to Get What You Want (1907)

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“Don't ever let life pass you by.”
― Incubus

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“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure that you seek.”
― Joseph Campbell

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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.”
― Jen Sincero

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“To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.”
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