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.

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

DO NOT DARE COUNTENANCE VIOLENT, COERCIVE ACTION AGAINST US!

My non-reflection on 9/11

Military medics: protected or not?

Is this definition of terrorism analytically useless?

Is there anything more strategically idiotic than "we're at war, so we must fight and win"?

Am I missing something here? (More on development and security)

This is what happens when you drink too much coffee and your girlfriend has to work late

The awesome prescience of obscure, misplaced books

The legend of COIN as essential CT enabler: the bin Laden exemplum

Does not compute

Can we just take a second to reflect on how freaking stupid this is?

Making excuses (Or: How national security politics has killed the blog)

On counter-terror financing

Some insights on "old" and "new" terrorism

On the reactionary incoherence of our terrorism policy

Iranian rebel leader received U.S. backing

Thanks, that was useful

A couple more things on al-Qaeda

Franchise vs. conglomerate, strategy vs. ideology, IO vs. material gain