Phil Carter has been on leave from one of our favorite blogs - Intel Dump - and we've missed his posts on foreign policy and national security issues. Phil will be returning - ETA November 08 - but in the meantime Intel Dump has assembled a first-class lineup to fill the void. Here it is:

Robert Bateman, Army Infantry Officer and author of Digital War: A View from the Front Lines and No Gun Ri: A Military History of the Korean War Incident

Shawn Brimley, a Fellow at the Center for a New American Security

Roger Carstens, retired Army Special Forces Lieutenant Colonel and Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security

Janine Davidson, former Air Force pilot and Assistant Professor at George Mason University's School of Public Policy

Clint Douglas, former Army Special Forces Sergeant and contributor to Operation Homecoming

Colin Kahl, Assistant Professor in the Security Studies Program in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University

John Nagl, retired US Army Officer and Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security

Erin Simpson, who writes on Counterinsurgency strategy and terrorism

Enjoy...