This is a special edition of the Joshua Tree Report. It covers February 20th through March 12th.
General Data
The temperature in
Cody is 57° Fahrenheit and the weather is
mostly cloudy. The temperature in
Kirkwall is 6° centigrade and the weather is
rainy. The temperature in
Muscat is 33° centigrade and the weather is
clear. A barrel of
crude oil is selling at $48.40, and $1.22 currently
exchanges for £1. This week's geospatial image is the
Cydonia, the location of the infamous "Face on Mars".
In the News
Here are a few of the recent weeks' top stories.
Why the French elections will change the face of Europe (al Jazeera)
Why is UAE building a military base in Somaliland? (BBC)
Navistar to upgrade MRAP vehicles for UAE (UPI)
Mass Spying Isn’t Just Intrusive - It’s Ineffective (Wired)
Iranian ships 'force' US and Royal Navy vessels to change course (BBC)
Mike Pence used an AOL e-mail account for state business and it got hacked (Ars Technica)
Yahoo cookie hacks affected 32 million accounts, CEO foregoes bonus (Ars Technica)
WikiLeaks Releases CIA Hacking Tools (Schneier on Security)
All Bets Are Off as a Surprise Offensive Roils the Libyan War (War is Boring)
Factions fight for two Libyan oil terminals (al Jazeera)
Scottish independence: SNP's economic case 'should not include oil' (BBC)
Penny Wise, Pound Foolish: Trump's Misguided Views of European Defense Spending (War on the Rocks)
Trumpeting the Alliance: How Much Will the United States and Japan Lean on Each Other (War on the Rocks)
Preventing a Credibility Crisis in America's Most Important Alliance (War on the Rocks)
That Time Chechen Rebels Floated Into Combat on Inner Tubes (War is Boring)
Catholic dissent: When wrong turns out to be right (U.S. Catholic)
Doner kebab and integration: A story worth telling (al Jazeera)
Kuwait cracks down on state employees faking work (BBC)
Watch Dubai evolve from desert to cosmopolitan in 32 years (Khaleej Times)
New Zealand garden gnome thefts 'fund meth trade' (BBC)
Origin of Wireless Security: The Marconi Radio Hack of 1903 (Hackaday)
As CRT Supplies Vanish the Classic Arcade Machine is Virtually Dead (Gizmodo)
Top Podcasts
These were my favorite podcasts from the recent weeks.
DocArchive: The Colony (BBC World Service)
Episode 190 - Burnout (The Southern Fried Security Podcast)
Episode 220 - Dana Perino (SOFREP Radio)
How statistics lost their power, and why we should fear what comes next - podcast (The Guardian)
Inquiry: Can You Believe What You Read on WikiLeaks? (BBC World Service)
IQ2: Has the U.S.-Saudi "Special Relationship" Outlived its Usefulness? (Intelligence Squared U.S.)
IQ2: Should We Give Trump a Chance? (Intelligence Squared U.S.)
No, the Trump transition isn’t endangering U.S. nukes. Here’s what to really worry about (War College)
The Bannon effect and a brief history of the National Security Council (War College)
Peacetime diplomacy and the New European Order (The National Archives)
The Art of Manliness #239: Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts (The Art of Manliness)
The Art of Manliness #255: The Joy of Missing Out - Getting Control of Your Digital Life (The Art of Manliness)
The Art of Manliness #274: Building Your Band of Brothers (The Art of Manliness)
The Art of Manliness #278: The Surprising Benefits of Marriage for Men (The Art of Manliness)
Whassigo - Wednesday 1st March 2017 (BBC Radio Orkney)
Course Report
ENG 199: I worked on an outline for an upcoming lecture on Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger.
PAC 130: Due to unforeseen circumstances, PAC 199 is cancelled until further notice.
BA 480: I did nothing.
HST 406 (O): I re-outlined my manuscript, and made some edits (additions and culls) to my master Great War timeline.
REL 199: I completed Symbolon 1:5 and 2:5.
Quote of the Week
"The power of enduring privations is one of the finest virtues in a soldier, and without it no army is animated with the true military spirit; but such privation must be of a temporary kind, commanded by the force of circumstances, and not the consequence of a wretchedly bad system, or of a parsimonious abstract calculation of the smallest ration that a man can exist upon."
- Carl von Clausewitz, On War, Book V, Chapter XIV: Subsistence
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