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.

Love those exceptionally descriptive German compound words

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

Old Tanker Syndrome

On counter-terror financing

A Number of Voids Need to be Filled. With a New CMR Paradigm.

Filling the Void and Re-balancing Civ-Mil Relations

On the SECDEF's efficiencies initiative and the poor GOs

Gian Gentile on CFR's website

Three Indian Peacekeepers Killed in Eastern DRC and UN Builds a Trench Around Refugee Camp

People in the defense/security world that I'd like to punch in the face (UPDATED)

Israel's buying Joint Strike Fighters, and it's really not as bad as you think

Steve Biddle on CFR podcast on Afghanistan

A good news story from Afghanistan. No, really.

Security assistance: from strategic assurance to capacity building in one simple graphic

JFCOM Cut