Putting Ukrainian battle successes into cold, hard perspective
While our media calls recent gains a turning point, be warned this might be headed for something more ‘frozen’ and less satisfactory.
Seth Harp is an investigative journalist and foreign correspondent who reported on the ground in Ukraine for Harper’s Magazine during the first two months of the Russian invasion. He is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, and has also reported on the military, armed conflict, and organized crime for a variety of other publications including The New Yorker, The Intercept, The New York Times, The Daily Beast, Texas Observer, and Columbia Journalism Review. He was a 2019 fellow in nonfiction literature at MacDowell, and is currently working on a book about murder, drug-trafficking, and coverups in the U.S. Army Special Forces for Viking Press.
Harp is a combat veteran of the Iraq war, and before becoming a journalist was a practicing lawyer and an assistant attorney general for the state of Texas. He lives in Austin, Texas, where he was born and raised.
While our media calls recent gains a turning point, be warned this might be headed for something more ‘frozen’ and less satisfactory.