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.

Comments and Reviews

Apropos of nothing...

I love books

Military reading lists, take 1,000,000

The tragedy of G. F. Kennan

Father of Money: moral decision making in Iraq (UPDATED)

"So much of what I did before was a war against stupidity"

Another anachronism? A word on irregulars and asymmetry

The awesome prescience of obscure, misplaced books

Apropos of absolutely nothing, some notes about the atomic bomb

The most awesome project in the history of the internet, publishing, and internet publishing, and it's not even close

History repeats itself: AK-47-hawking car dealer edition

2053 nuclear explosions, 1945-1998

Sorta remotely COINish quote of the day

See, it really IS possible to write a good paper about security assistance

What we're reading #6

General Desportes' La Guerre Probable

What we're reading #5

Let's get our "colonialist generals" and COIN heroes straight, shall we?

Policing and counterinsurgency