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, November 20, 2012

Honor, ethics, and the UCMJ

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I've been waiting for things to calm down a bit before commenting on GEN Petraeus's resignation. We're not quite there yet, but ...
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Sunday, November 11, 2012

Veteran's Day/Remembrance Day

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To all who serve, and all who sacrifice - thank you.
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Thursday, November 1, 2012

The rank hypocrisy of veterans on OPSEC

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I've written on these pages before about questioning the expertise of anyone claiming to have expertise and that arguments should be wei...
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Monday, October 29, 2012

The failure of light-footprint intervention to provide long-term stability

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Today the RAND Corporation released Libya's Post-Qaddafi Transition: The Nation-Building Challenge  co-written by a team of researchers....
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Monday, October 8, 2012

Antony Beevor's "The Second World War": Strategic analysis and myth-busting

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In the acknowledgements to his latest history, TheSecond World War , Antony Beevor says that he wrote this comprehensive tome on one of th...
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Military reading lists, take 1,000,000

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On Monday, John Arquilla published a critique of the U.S. Military Academy's "top ten military classics"  –  content and titl...
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Monday, September 24, 2012

Afghanistan strategy three-fer

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I haven't been writing much on anything other than veterans issues lately and for good reason. This has been the result of my increasing...
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Thursday, September 20, 2012

The Senators who voted against the Veterans Jobs Corps Act

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Last week I wrote about a handful of Senators attempting to block the Veterans Jobs Corps Act of 2012 - a bill that would have put a lot of...
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Friday, September 14, 2012

The Veterans Jobs Corps Act and the Senate Republicans against it

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The Department of Labor released August employment data late last week. Yet again, 9/11-era veterans have significantly higher rates of unem...
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Wednesday, August 29, 2012

The G.I. Bill and the veteran gap in CMR studies

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A few weeks ago I wrote a post disdainful of a new reality show that I felt was taking advantage of America's current love affair with ...
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Monday, August 13, 2012

Stars Earn Stripes: bad TV, worse morality UPDATED

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This is your fault America. When television producers were looking to cut costs and introduced low-budget fare to the public in the form of ...
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Thursday, August 9, 2012

Ohio and military votes: towards a warrior caste and unbalanced civil-military relations

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The Ohio military voting issue that surfaced within the past week has raised some ugly politics and views. While reticent to wade into what ...
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Thursday, August 2, 2012

Romney abroad: on culture, busts, and the categorical imperative of democracy

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NOTE: I feel the need to introduce this post with a reiteration of the usual disclaimer. I'm not representing anyone else's views or...
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