Audio Selections:

• Intro speech clip sourced from: BBC Radio Orkney
• Orchestral selection: 1812 Overture
• Bagpipe selection: The Gordon Highlanders, "Cock of the North"
• Closing theme: "The Black Woods Jig" by Mirka

Additional Resources:

• Lamb's Haggis
• Robert Burns, Address to a Haggis

Supplemental Sources:

• The New Yorker: The Shadow Commander (2013)
• Mark Bowden, Guests of the Ayatollah (2007)
• BBC World Service, The Afghan Arms Bazaar (2008)
• Fresh Air, Leaked Intelligence Reports Reveal The Vast Power Iran Wields In Iraq (2020)
• Long War Journal, Tag: Soleimani (2015-2020)

Sources

• Reading #1
• Reading #2
• Clip #1
• Clip #2

Audio Selections:

• Intro speech clip sourced from Sultanate of Oman Broadcasting
• Orchestral selection: 1812 Overture
• Bagpipe selection: The Gordon Highlanders, "Cock of the North"
• Whassigo clip courtesy of BBC Radio Orkney
• Closing theme: "The Black Woods Jig" by Mirka

This is an event recording of a 2019 lecture at the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum.

From the cutting room floor: three tea recipes, including the rundown for how to produce Tom's favorite cup of tea.

• The Food of Oman: Recipes and Stories from the Gateway to Arabia by Felicia Campbell
• Food of Life: Ancient Persian and Modern Iranian Cooking and Ceremonies by Najmieh Batmanglij

Audio Selections:

• Intro speech clip sourced from: CH Live: NYC - Streeter Seidell
• Orchestral selection: 1812 Overture
• Bagpipe selection: The Gordon Highlanders, "Cock of the North"
• Whassigo clip courtesy of BBC Radio Orkney
• Closing theme: "The Black Woods Jig" by Mirka

Further Reading:

• The Giddy Limit by Alex Leonard
• The Orkney Dictionary by Margaret Flaws and Gregor Lamb
• An etymological glossary of the Shetland & Orkney dialect; with some derivations of names of places in Shetland by Thos. Edmonston, F.R.S.L., F.A.S.L.
• Navy, Army, and Air Force Institutes (NAAFI)
• Ahmad Tea

This is the recording of an October 16, 2019 Facebook Live AMA session focused upon the Trump Administration's withdrawal of support troops from Syrian Kurdistan.

Recommended Additional Listening:

• Erdogan's Empire with Soner Cagaptay
• Russia - Iran Relations- Agreements And Disagreements
• IQ2 #170 - Unresolved: Shifting Power in the Middle East
• China and Russia’s Converging Interests: A Conversation with Alexander Gabuev

Audio Selections:

• Intro speech clip sourced from: QuranEnglish.com
• Orchestral selection: 1812 Overture
• Bagpipe selection: The Gordon Highlanders, "Cock of the North"
• Around Orkney clip courtesy of BBC Radio Orkney
• Traditional Kuwaiti music clips courtesy of the Qatar Digital Library SoundCloud page
• Closing theme: "The Black Woods Jig" by Mirka

Further Reading:

• B.J. Slot, Mubarak Al-Sabah: Founder of Modern Kuwait, 1896-1915
• QDL: "Koweit Blockade"
• Wikipedia: Operation Vantage
• Anthony Cordesman, The Lessons of odern War, Vol. 2: The Iran-Iraq War

Here are a few minutes of Episode 007 that were too good to go to waste. For a bit of further reading, check out then-General Mattis' 2008 Effects-Based Operations memorandum, which was circulated to personnel at USJFCOM.