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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.

Saturday, July 31, 2010

30 JULY: A year ago on Ink Spots

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Ok, so I'm a day late on this one, but I'm sure you won't have noticed. Just a quick one today; it's Saturday morning, bles...
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Friday, July 30, 2010

This is the kind of thing that makes me think we haven't seen the end of civil violence in America

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How can the country continue to exist in relative peace and harmony (and by that I mean widespread consensus on the right of the government ...
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Some insights on "old" and "new" terrorism

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Mike Innes has a great interview up on Current Intelligence with Richard Huffman, the publisher and editor of Baader-Meinhof.com . I'll...
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Thursday, July 29, 2010

John Nagl is a really smart guy, but this is just goofy excuse-making

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Josh Rogin got his hands on an advance copy (pdf) of the Final Report of the Quadrennial Defense Review Independent Panel, the group of bip...
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"What's hard to look at"

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This week's issue of TIME features a heart-wrenching photograph of an 18-year old Afghan woman who had her nose and ears cut off by the ...
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Wednesday, July 28, 2010

F136 lobbying/advertising update (oh yeah, and legislative update, too)

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Want to see something really bad? Here's Pratt & Whitney's new internet advertisement opposing the JSF alternate engine: Yep, y...
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Saturday, July 24, 2010

Risk and Reward: McChrystal may have been right on civilian casualties in Afghanistan

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When GEN McChrystal introduced new, more restrictive rules of engagement in July 2009, reactions were varied. As they were applied in expand...
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Friday, July 23, 2010

23 JULY: A year ago on Ink Spots

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This time last year, the whole Iranian election saga was still shaking itself out. Mystifyingly, Ahmadinejad still hasn't "defeat...
Thursday, July 22, 2010

Sovereignty open thread

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The UN's International Court of Justice ruled today that Kosovo's 2008 declaration of independence from Serbia was legal. (The Cour...
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Tuesday, July 20, 2010

SECDEF clarifies adjustment to Korea OPCON transfer

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As I wrote about last week, Geoff Morrell's had a hell of a time dancing around the reasons why we've decided (mutually with our Ko...
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Can the Anti-Defamation League please, PLEASE just STFU?

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This is outside my normal lane, but it's so egregious that I just can't avoid ranting about it here: During a baseball game between ...
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Part two of why lobbyists are so terrible (UPDATED)

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In response to Dana Priest and William Arkin's revelation this week in the Washington Post that the government contracts TOP SECRET-cle...
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Friday, July 16, 2010

Restrepo Reviews

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On Friday, Alma, Gunslinger and I (plus a couple others) went to see Restrepo . Alma and Gunslinger will update the post as soon as they get...
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16 JULY: A year ago on Ink Spots

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A couple of weeks ago I suggested that I was going to inaugurate a new "Last year on Ink Spots" feature . Then I linked to one po...
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Thursday, July 15, 2010

Some days, being the Pentagon spokesman really sucks

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I pick on Geoff Morrell from time to time, and it's probably unfair. The man is passing up what must be some pretty lucrative opportunit...
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