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.

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

The Reagan view on intervention

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I was reading an old essay by Kenneth Waltz today when I came across something that seemed straight out of today's discussions about bo...
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Friday, June 15, 2012

R2P's regime-change conundrum

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If you haven't yet, I recommend you all read the Report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty  (pdf), th...
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Monday, June 11, 2012

On Values

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Late last week the WaPo ran a series of opinions regarding U.S. intervention in Syria. The battle lines were as well drawn as they are on th...
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Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Shadows of 2003

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Once upon a time there was a country in the Middle East ruled by a Ba'athist dictator. This dictator used special intelligence units and...
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Friday, June 1, 2012

Grand strategy: good but unlikely

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I really enjoyed t his post by the always excellent Daveed Gartenstein-Ross as a counter to anti-interventionists with regard to Syria. Dav...
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Happy Birthday Preemption!

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The season of college graduations is most likely just over by now. I was in New York the other week during Columbia University's celebra...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012

The problem is the power to use them, not the drones themselves

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I haven't thought much about drones since I had to worry about scheduling and clearing airspace for them when I was still in the Army de...
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Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Involuntary soldier separations are a far cry from stop loss

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My last 16 months in the Army were involuntarily served. My unit deployed to Iraq the same month I was to begin my final leave before becomi...
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Thursday, May 24, 2012

The grand strategy pipe dream

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Grand strategy in this era and political climate in the United States is a pipe dream. The idea of a unifying, coherent set of statements th...
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Sunday, May 20, 2012

NATO was not in Iraq! WaPo edition (Updated-2)

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Annie Gowen reporting in the Washington Post today on the clash between protesters and police at the NATO summit in Chicago : Mark Stach, ...
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Friday, May 18, 2012

Center for National Policy recommends changes to NATO's Afghanistan strategy

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Scott Bates and Ryan Evans from the Center for National Policy (CNP) have authored a recommendation for a change in strategy for Afghanistan...
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Monday, May 14, 2012

A rant on the substitution of "veteran" for expertise

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"I would love to give my medals directly to a NATO official," said Broseus, 28. "I don't feel like I earned them in a ju...
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Friday, May 11, 2012

Dear General Dempsey: The Powell Doctrine is not operational doctrine

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Along came 9/11.  And as you know, famously we went from sort of the traditional template, back to the Powell doctrine, and then realized ...
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Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Disruptive thinking and unnecessary modifying modifiers

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I really don't get this disruptive thinking concept floating about the blogosphere recently. I certainly get the complaints of many of t...
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Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Confessions of an Adjutant: the sausage-making of awards policies

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I'm a few days late to this discussion, but I wanted the passion surrounding this Air Force Times article on awards to subside a bit be...
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