Ink Spots

Ink Spots is a blog dedicated to the discussion of security issues across the spectrum of conflict and around the world. Our contributors are security professionals with interests and expertise ranging from counterinsurgency, stability operations, and post-conflict environments to national security strategy, security cooperation, and materiel acquisition. We hope this site will be a forum for discussion on both the issues of the day and broader, long-term developments in the security sphere.

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Gaps

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Farmers - Food Eaters Bankers-Investors Doctors-Patients Energy Industry-Energy Consumers Congressmen-Constituents Retailers-Consu...
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Friday, May 24, 2013

The leadership enigma and sexual assault in the military

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Leadership's problem is that it is an enigma. We know it exists, but what it is and how to teach it is as clear as Turner's London. ...
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Tuesday, March 19, 2013

10 Years After

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10 years ago I was in the western desert of Kuwait, a tank platoon leader unsure if I would have to lead my men to war or not. I fully suppo...
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Thursday, February 28, 2013

Comments and Reviews

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Just a couple of quick notes. First, I want to apologize for the addition of captcha to the comments. We have been inundated with spam latel...
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013

A Revolution in Insurgent Military Affairs? Neville Bolt's The Violent Image

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The Violent Image: Insurgent Propaganda and the New Revolutionaries By Neville Bolt Columbia University Press In  The Violent Im...
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Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Apropos of nothing...

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Excerpted from a  Wall Street Journal editorial, 10 January 1963, entitled "War Without Will": And perhaps we should all realize...
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Sunday, December 23, 2012

I love books

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During my third tour in Iraq, as a staff officer, I spent the preponderance of my non-working time reading. It was an ideal situation to rea...
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Monday, December 10, 2012

Generals

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Before getting to the meat of this post I should make two statements. First, is that I neither like nor dislike General Petraeus. I do not t...
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Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Our definition of war is pretty good as it is

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Lt Col Jill Long, an Air Force officer and student at the Army War College, wrote "What is War? A New Point of View" that was pub...
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Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Honor, ethics, and the UCMJ

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I've been waiting for things to calm down a bit before commenting on GEN Petraeus's resignation. We're not quite there yet, but ...
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Sunday, November 11, 2012

Veteran's Day/Remembrance Day

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To all who serve, and all who sacrifice - thank you.
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Thursday, November 1, 2012

The rank hypocrisy of veterans on OPSEC

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I've written on these pages before about questioning the expertise of anyone claiming to have expertise and that arguments should be wei...
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Monday, October 29, 2012

The failure of light-footprint intervention to provide long-term stability

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Today the RAND Corporation released Libya's Post-Qaddafi Transition: The Nation-Building Challenge  co-written by a team of researchers....
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Monday, October 8, 2012

Antony Beevor's "The Second World War": Strategic analysis and myth-busting

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In the acknowledgements to his latest history, TheSecond World War , Antony Beevor says that he wrote this comprehensive tome on one of th...
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Military reading lists, take 1,000,000

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On Monday, John Arquilla published a critique of the U.S. Military Academy's "top ten military classics"  –  content and titl...
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