Hi there! Welcome back to Five Minute Military! I wanted to cover the Ukrainian counter offensive efforts today, but I saw an opportunity to talk about the military concept of the “initiative” so I leapt at it! Here is part one of two!Correction: In this episode I mention “The North” when what I meant to say was the south as Kherson is in the southern region of Ukraine.Sources:https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-july-24https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62340807https://kyivindependent.com/national/what-would-a-ukrainian-counter-offensive-in-kherson-look-likehttps://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/AD1001370.pdfhttps://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-captures-power-station-redeploys-troops-toward-southern-ukraine-2022-07-27/https://www.rferl.org/a/pentagon-chris-dougherty-interview-southern-ukraine-offensive/31962608.htmlhttps://liveuamap.com/en/2022/28-july-at-sloviansk-direction-russian-army-conducted-assaulthttps://liveuamap.com/