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.

Zorching is the new surging

DO NOT DARE COUNTENANCE VIOLENT, COERCIVE ACTION AGAINST US!

Mark Kirk gets his feelings hurt, says a spectacularly dumb thing

Iran, North Korea and UN Sanctions

Support for the democratic aspirations of all people: why more talk, less action is the right way to go

How to kill a perfectly good lunch hour fiddling with an essentially meaningless thought experiment; Or: How this graph mathematically proves withdrawal is a good idea

What's in it for Russia? (UPDATED TWICE)

Anybody interested in a really, really stupid definition of "victory"?

"Joint IED Mitigation Organization" just doesn't have quite the same ring to it

Welcome to the party, David, even if you're like three years late

Iranian rebel leader received U.S. backing

The death of an Ayatollah

Congress is awesome

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen wants to "hit Iran where it hurts"

Rafsanjani to deliver sermon in Tehran