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.

Friday, January 14, 2011

Forrestal was right: Why the Marine Corps isn't going anywhere, EFV be damned (UPDATE)

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There's been a lot of hand-wringing and heavy breathing from some corners in the wake of last week's announcement that the Marine ...
Wednesday, January 12, 2011

How to kill a perfectly good lunch hour fiddling with an essentially meaningless thought experiment; Or: How this graph mathematically proves withdrawal is a good idea

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Step 1: Browse Abu Muqawama Step 2: Observe new post positing a simple graphical model for Chinese and Iranian engagement in Afghanistan ...
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

The Civil-Military Divide: Interesting but not Dangerous (UPDATED)

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There has been a growing chorus that the divide between the U.S. military and the American people is widening and this is bad for our nation...
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Is it time to reconsider the Taiwan delusion?

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Courtney at GSGF  links approvingly  (it seems...?) to Tom Donnelly, Mackenzie Eaglen, and Jamie Fly's newest piece in The National Revi...
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Sri Lanka: "a grisly test case for success in modern warfare"? (UPDATED)

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You've heard it before : the success of the brutal Sri Lankan campaign against the Tamil Tigers proves that Western approaches to counte...
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Monday, January 10, 2011

Max Boot is still not making the argument for a larger land force

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Forget grand strategy and all that. There are a couple of significant problems with this newest Max Boot column where he responds to criti...

How the dialogue about "progressive national security strategy" is destructive both to progressives and national security

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Several different discussion threads have been kicking around in my mind in recent weeks and have lately converged around the question of h...
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Saturday, January 8, 2011

Effects of Grand Strategy without Grand Enemies on Budget Debates: GS/GE Part III

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I'm going to just label this topic thread GS/GE (Grand Strategy / Grand Enemy) because I'm getting tired of typing it out. I had an...
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Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Why "drafting the U.S. civil service for counterinsurgencies" is either a really dumb idea or an awesome piece of satire

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Yesterday Small Wars Journal published a piece by one Michael A. Clauser entitled " Not Just a Job, an Adventure : Drafting the U.S. Ci...
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Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Grand enemies and grand strategy - Part II

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Over a month ago I wrote a post asking the question : is a grand enemy necessary for a grand strategy? I had intended to get back to this s...
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We haven't retired or died, and other things to be excited about in 2011!

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Just wanted to take a moment to let everyone know that we're not dead, we were just on vacation. And/or lazy. (And/or dead. Not totally ...
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Friday, December 17, 2010

Lessons Learned from U.S. Government Law Enforcement in International Operations

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I was recently involved in a project to research and examine lessons learned on the law enforcement elements of the U.S.'s experiences i...
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Monday, December 13, 2010

Dick Holbrooke, a dedicated servant of his country, dead at 69

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Whatever else you want to say about the man, Dick Holbrooke gave more of his life to America than almost anyone. He entered the foreign serv...
Friday, December 10, 2010

I will not boycott you again Tom - I will continue to engage you as my "solipsistic self"

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Thank you, Tom, for pointing out that the United States has used the draft in the past 100 years . I obviously didn't know that since I...
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