Desert Force Desert Force The Desert Force ( Arabic:قوات البادية , Eng:Al-Badia Force), also known as the Desert Patrol, is a paramilitary force of Transjordan. Its main task was to guard Jordanian borders with neighboring Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Syria as well as to provide protection for oil pipe lines of Iraqi Petroleum Company (IPC). It also participated in campaigns of Syria and Iraq during World War II. The Desert Patrol was formed as a semi-independent part of the Arab Legion in February 1931 by Glubb Pasha to secure Transjordan's desert region of the country, effectively everything east of the cultivated area
The Oregon Desert is published by Caxton Press of Caldwell, Idaho. The book was first published in 1964. The book has never been out of print since its first edition in 1964. As of 2003, the book is in its fourteenth printing. Here are the publication dates for each printing from 1964 to the current edition which was published in 2003. The University of Nebraska Press distributes the 2003 edition for the Caxton Press. The Oregon Desert The Oregon Desert is a non-fiction book about the high desert region of eastern Oregon. It highlights both the people and natural history of Oregon's high