Strange cleared jobs. What do Mars protector, parachute trainer, master plumber, and artist have in common? Watch to see.
Acquisition anxiety. Contributor Jillian Hamilton writes, “A merge doesn’t have to be the beginning of your demise. It is simply a new beginning. Some of us don’t do well with change, but learning how to adjust and be useful in a new way is better than sitting at home wondering where it all went wrong.”
THE FORCE AND THE FIGHT
The Long War Journal’s Bill Roggio reports, “[Saturday], the Afghan National Army withdrew from two bases in the district of Musa Qala in Helmand. [Sunday], we learn that the Afghan Army also withdrew from the district of Now Zad. It appears that the Afghan military doesn’t intend to return to the bases anytime soon.”
CNBC contributor Clay Dillow reports, “After successfully launching 19 missions in 2015, the People’s Republic plans a range of civilian and military missions that will test new rockets, launch a space laboratory, hone China’s manned spaceflight capability and loft new satellites into orbit — all while furthering plans to bring a habitable space station online by 2022 and put Chinese astronauts on the moon in the mid-2020s.”
Washington Post’s Carol Morello reports, “Secretary of State John F. Kerry said Sunday that he and his Russian counterpart had reached a ‘provisional agreement in principle’ for a temporary truce in the Syrian civil war and that it could start within days. . . . final details are [to] be ironed out in a phone call between President Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Among the unsettled issues are how a cease-fire would be enforced and how breaches will be resolved.”
TECH, PRIVACY, & SECRECY
Defense One contributors Harry Oppenheimer and Aaron Picozzi report, “An unparalleled, indiscriminate and growing wave of transparency is exposing the deployment of military assets—once found only through labored searches of technical publications—and high definition, near-real-time images of geographical locations worldwide, are obtainable through the click of a mouse.”
Wired’s April Glaser writes, “Password protecting your iPhone screen is an opt-in setting, but it’s a smart move. When you lock your phone screen, you protect your private data from casual snooping and more sinister intrusions. But if you do enable this passcode lock, you’d better be confident in your memory. . . . Here are steps you can take to make sure your iPhone contacts, apps, photos, and music don’t disappear along with your short-term memory. . . .”
