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.

There aren't too many legitimate parallels between Nazi Germany and modern America...

Neoconservatism's death: please don't forget to throw out the baby with the bathwater

Strategic assumptions in a non-unitary government

Monday's strategy word-mash

Chinese military power and America's future in the western Pacific

"Political strategy," IO impact, and propaganda of the deed: "You want it to be one way, but it's the other way"

NTM-A disagrees with my ANP assessment

As if we needed more bad news about the ANP

Afghanization hurt by U.S. budgeting practices?

Max Boot is gonna learn us all up about Somalia! (UPDATED)

If the last two presidents haven't been "hawk internationalist" enough for you, maybe move to Bismarck's Prussia

"The more things change...": Historical observations on the difficulty of SFA

Open Thread: National security reform (UPDATED)

I wonder how he feels about Afghanistan!

Is this the new normal for SOF? (UPDATED)