Author: Michael

Welcome to The Ukraine Compass, a weekly digest of Ukrainian commentary and analysis from across the political spectrum only for War on the Rocks members. Each Monday, we bring you a curated selection of articles from Ukrainian media offering insight into how Ukrainians themselves debate the issues shaping their country.American coverage often narrows the view to the battlefield — these pieces widen it, revealing the texture of daily life, politics, and public argument in a nation at war.

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It must have seemed like a relatively harmless work detail, in the way that any detail in the world’s most heavily armed border area can be harmless. When Capt. Arthur Bonifas and Lt. Mark Barrett reported for duty to chop down a tree in the Korean DMZ, they probably never thought they’d be hacked to death by North Korean soldiers.
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The two officers were leading a South Korean work detail with a South Korean officer on Aug. 18, 1976.

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Steve Blank, the Silicon Valley entrepreneur and educator, recently warned startup founders that if their company was built on assumptions from more than two years ago, their business plan may already be dead. The same is true of military plans.
Replace “startup” with “combatant command,” and the warning becomes existential.

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