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.

Election '10: Defense doesn't give a damn what you think you are entitled to!

Hundreds of years of animosity down the drain in one day

Boycott Lifted - an olive branch to Tom Ricks

US Intervention in Central Africa: Getting past the strawman arguments

Ignorance about Africa Part I: When smart people say stupid things

An Iraq vet's thoughts on the Wikileaks Iraq reports

Recommended reading on strategy and an administrative note

From the Special Relationship to a Dependency Relationship

Quote of the day, Bernard Fall couldn't possibly have been talking about Afghanistan because he's been dead for four decades edition

Putting some perspective on the effects of Tunnell's worldview of COIN

Britannia Rules the Waves No More

Morality and Dissent: Redux

France, the Burka Ban, and the Alleged "Roma File"

ISAF's fingers are crossed. That should do the trick.

On the Genealogy of Morals and Military Dissent