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.

More money = more readiness, just as simple as that?

Mark Kirk gets his feelings hurt, says a spectacularly dumb thing

Machiavelli: counterinsurgent's muse?

If only defense spending had a domestic constituency! (UPDATED)

Military leadership =/= Police leadership: advice to the Winsor review

What's wrong with COIN doctrine?

The Prine-Burke-Few Doctrine and the COINdinistra Manual

Kagan: "defense has no domestic constituency"

Damnit, we're the contemporary Flower Warriors. I knew it.

The strange ethical paradox of mass slaughter from the air

Fun with slopegraphs: NATO defense spending as a percentage of GDP

Without getting into the whole "should we cut off aid to Pakistan?" thing...

...begging the question, "why does the military hate English?"

Let sleeping sea dogs lie - for now

Why not "Momentum III"?