by Piper | Dec 11, 2019 | Current Affairs, News
Bayard & Holmes ~ Jay Holmes Effective November 30, 2019, Seal Team Seven member Chief Special Warfare Operator Eddie Gallagher retired from the US Navy after twenty years of service. Though Gallagher remains on Fleet Reserve status, it is highly unlikely that he...
by Piper Bayard | Feb 14, 2018 | Bayard, Holmes, Movie, No Popcorn
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...
by Piper Bayard | Feb 2, 2015 | Current Affairs, News
By Jay Holmes The recent terror attacks in Paris have been a central theme in Western news outlets for the last couple of weeks. The outrage at these cowardly attacks is understandable, and responses from Western European leaders have shared some common themes....
by Piper Bayard | Jan 11, 2015 | Current Affairs, Foreign Affairs, News
By Jay Holmes With the “ISIS crisis” occupying the headlines in Europe and North America, the US and NATO military operations in Afghanistan have been all but forgotten in the media. On December 28, 2014, US President Obama announced that after thirteen...
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 | Feb 17, 2014 | Current Affairs, Foreign Affairs, News
By Jay Holmes The United Nations News Center released a report on February 8, 2014, stating that civilian casualties in Afghanistan rose by 14% last year. It also indicates that 2014 was the worst year since 2009 in terms of the number of women and children killed or...
by Piper Bayard | Sep 26, 2012 | Current Affairs, Foreign Affairs
By Intelligence Operative Jay Holmes* On September 14, 15 Taliban fighters dressed in US Army style uniforms attacked the UK’s Camp Bastion in Helmand Provence, Afghanistan. The attackers were armed with PKM machine guns, AK-47 assault rifles, rocket propelled...
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