Ukraine–Russia War: A 2025 Assessment

After a summer of costly Russian pressure and strained Ukrainian defense, the war now feels less like a contest of maneuver than a slow, punishing struggle in which every kilometer is bought with blood and neither side can yet break the other.

Col. (Ret) Nate Slate: The Family of Man

I missed my family terribly, yet as we set the conditions for others to carry on, I felt bound to Iraq by hard-won trust and wondered if leaving would betray the mission and the family of man we had become.