• Justice the “American Way“:
• Courtesy of the red, white and blue (Toby Keith, R.I.P.)
•  “Locked in” (gamer/unauthorized hip-hop mashup)
• Where have we seen this movie before??
• Is this video Sponge Bob-approved (I doubt it)?
• Hegseth reads from the Podium (with theme song)
• Where is Michael Bay???

Talking points and sourcing:

• Long-term/short-term 
• Shades of Iraq campaign
• ‘Four to five weeks’ projected
• Changing rationale
• Hegseth crows
• Hegseth, sounding a teensy bit defensive but staying in his depth, advises journalists on . . . headlines.
• from the Military Religious Freedom Foundation
• Trump’s ‘strategy,’ oil markets, and stock market
• And ‘controlling‘ press coverage (and source-filtering)–Hegseth has banned journalists in favor of conspiracy theorists and the mypillow.com guy.
• March 17: Resignation of Joe Kent
• March 19: DNI defers to Trump’s gut feeling

 Coverage

• War in the age of the ‘information bomb’ (the title,–couldn’t express it better–from the New Yorker)
• From The (left-leaning) Intercept, reality check, history and context.
• Interesting take from Foreign Affairs on Iran’s seeming ‘horizontal’ strategy (and escalation of the war). 
• A.I. unleashed
• FCC chair threatens news organizations whose coverage the White House doesn’t like
• And in the Freudian projection category:

• And then, there’s the oil
• In Sudan, too (oil and conflict)
• … North Dakota? Does oil change the landscape?
• Price of gas, you ask?