by Piper | Sep 19, 2021 | Current Affairs, Foreign Affairs, News
Bayard & Holmes~ Jay Holmes On September 15, 2021, US President Biden announced that the United States is entering a new Security Agreement with Australia and the United Kingdom. He explained that a major feature of the new agreement will be the United States and...
by Piper Bayard | May 17, 2016 | Foreign Affairs, News, US/Asia-Pacific Alliances
Bayard & Holmes ~ Jay Holmes A key part of the evolving US strategic response to communist China’s nouveau-imperialist agenda in the Pacific is to strengthen its alliance with democratic Malaysia. At first glance, the relationship between the two...
by Piper Bayard | May 2, 2016 | Foreign Affairs, News, US/Asia-Pacific Alliances
Bayard & Holmes ~ Jay Holmes In response to the People’s Republic of China’s recent sovereignty claims over the entire South China Sea/West Philippines Sea and China’s escalated aggression in those international waters, US President Obama and his administration...
by Piper Bayard | Sep 14, 2015 | Current Affairs, Foreign Affairs, History, News
Bayard & Holmes ~ Jay Holmes On August 26, 2015, the Philippine government took a major step in Philippine foreign policy toward its closest ally, the US. During an official visit to the Philippines, the commander of US Pacific Command, Admiral Harry Harris, met...
by Piper Bayard | Mar 9, 2015 | Current Affairs, Foreign Affairs, News
By Jay Holmes During the past twelve years, US-Turkey relations have been in a state of flux. Statements from Ankara and Washington D.C. to the Western media have been almost habitually optimistic, but the reality beneath the rhetoric has proven problematic for both...
by Piper Bayard | Jun 8, 2014 | Current Affairs, News
~ Jay Holmes Since his release from Taliban captivity on May 13, 2014, in exchange for five senior Taliban leaders, Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl has been in the spotlight of the U.S. media. The Obama administration and much of the American media hailed the initial reports...
by Piper Bayard | Jul 29, 2013 | Current Affairs, Foreign Affairs
By Jay Holmes When we last published an analysis of the war in Syria in April 2013, this was where things stood: Various factions of Islamic fundamentalist-branded gangs had hijacked the conflict. Russia had announced its continuing support for Assad. Turkey’s own...
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