  We present a high-quality description of the deuteron electromagnetic form
factors in a soft-wall AdS/QCD approach. We first propose an effective action
describing the dynamics of the deuteron in the presence of an external vector
field. Based on this action the deuteron electromagnetic form factors are
calculated, displaying the correct 1/Q^10 power scaling for large Q^2 values.
This finding is consistent with quark counting rules and the earlier
observation that this result holds in confining gauge/gravity duals. The Q^2
dependence of the deuteron form factors is defined by a single and universal
scale parameter kappa, which is fixed from data.
