Articles & Blogs by Bayard & Holmes
Deliberate Inadequacy–France’s Strategic Vision
Bayard & Holmes ~ Jay Holmes Last week, the French government released its outline for future defense strategy and spending. The presentation made it clear that the Macron government wishes to cut its defense budget, concentrate on high-technology...
Real News Mashup–Mar 5, 2019
Bayard & Holmes~ Piper BayardReal News Mashup is a compilation of articles that I consider to be interesting, informative, or both. Please share articles of your own in the comments. Perhaps if we work together, we can remember that the world is bigger...
Real News Mashup — Feb 21, 2019
Bayard & Holmes~ Piper BayardReal News Mashup is a compilation of articles that I consider to be interesting, informative, or both. Please feel free to share articles of your own in the comments. Perhaps if we work together, we can remember that the...
Real News Mashup–Feb 11, 2019
Bayard & Holmes~ Piper BayardReal News Mashup is a compilation of articles that I consider to be interesting, informative, or both. Please feel free to share articles of your own in the comments. Perhaps if we work together, we can remember that the...
Real News Mashup — Feb 1, 2019
Bayard & Holmes~ Piper Bayard Real News Mashup is a compilation of articles that I consider to be interesting, informative, or both. Please feel free to share non-political articles of your own in the comments. Perhaps if we work together, we can...
Real News Mashup, January 24, 2019
Bayard & Holmes~ Piper BayardReal News Mashup is a compilation of articles that I consider to be interesting, informative, or both. Please feel free to share non-political articles of your own in the comments. Perhaps if we work together, we can combat...
Pilgrim on a Lonely Journey
Bayard & Holmes ~ Piper Bayard This is the week of the mass American pilgrimage. Thanksgiving, more than any other holiday, is the day we Americans travel home. It is the one holiday we all share, no matter what our religion. The day when we gather as families....
Fernando “X”–9th Annual Love-A-Spook Day Honoree
Bayard & Holmes ~ Piper Bayard & Jay Holmes Nine years ago, Bayard & Holmes designated October 31 as Love-A-Spook* Day—a day when we honor the men and women of the Intelligence Community who dedicate and sometimes sacrifice their lives to keep...
Really, Saudi Arabia? You Call That an Assassination?
Bayard & Holmes ~ Piper Bayard & Jay Holmes According to a variety of public news sources, Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi entered the Saudi Arabian Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, only to be sawed into pieces with a bone saw by a...
Now Available! SPYCRAFT: Essentials
Bayard & Holmes We are proud to announce the birth of our new book baby, SPYCRAFT: Essentials. Now available on Kindle, Nook, and Kobo, and in print at Amazon. What do the main intelligence agencies do and where do they operate? How do they recruit personnel? What...
Life in the Cold
Bayard & Holmes ~ Piper Bayard Independence Day was not the end of our fight for freedom, but only the beginning. Most of the men who signed our Declaration of Independence lost their fortunes and their lives in the fight. Yet that war did not seal America's...
Thank You, IRS, for Coming After Me
Bayard & Holmes ~ Piper Bayard The IRS came after me, and I’m smiling. Yes, smiling. No, I don’t enjoy paying taxes. In fact, I’m appalled by the way the government misappropriates or flat out pilfers half of what it takes, and then our “leaders” refuse to...
AR-15 Facts Without Politics
Bayard & Holmes ~ Piper Bayard & Jay Holmes Big Media, Big Politics, and Big Business all profit financially and politically when they keep the public worked up in fear and/or outrage. They are not our friends. Let’s take some of their power back with a few...
12 Strong–Movie Review
Bayard & Holmes ~ Piper Bayard & Jay Holmes Based on the best-selling book Horse Soldiers by Doug Stanton, 12 Strong is the true story of the first US Army Special Forces team to go into Afghanistan to hunt down Taliban and al-Qaeda after the 9/11 terrorist...
Flight of the Konkordski — The Rest of the Story
Bayard & Holmes ~ Jay Holmes The Russian TU-144 jet, a.k.a. the Konkordski, was the Soviet version of the French/British Concorde. In Part One, Explosion of the TU-144, we looked at the apparent events at the 1973 Paris Air Show when the TU-144 exploded,...
Flight of the Konkordski — Where Andrei Tupolev Sat
Bayard & Holmes ~ Jay Holmes In our last post, Explosion of the TU-144, we looked at the crash of the TU-144, a.k.a. the Konkordski, at the June 3, 1978 Paris Air Show, and we asked, “Why, on such an important day, did such an important plane flown by some of the...
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