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.

10 Years After

Shadows of 2003

Happy Birthday Preemption!

NATO was not in Iraq! WaPo edition (Updated-2)

A rant on the substitution of "veteran" for expertise

The real threat of hybrid conflict

Police development: you're doing it wrong

"The more things change...": Statecraft and Malice Aforethought Edition

The Principles of War have not changed, Pt II: the Surge edition

Who needs bipartisanship when we've got pervasive groupthink?

Intervention and the presumed combat multiplier of popular uprising

Military medics: protected or not?

Afghanization hurt by U.S. budgeting practices?

Why not "Momentum III"?

Leon Wieseltier wants U.S. action on Libya, suggests it should be pretty clean and easy

Are you coming up with some proposals for me to send around?

COIN rhetoric versus reality

Friday quick-hits

More mystifying speculation about the Republican congress and the defense budget