Two Weeks at the Front in Ukraine

A sobering read. It's a shame it fell off the front page without much interest. I think more people should have a sense of what's going on at the front lines in this battle.

agreed. excellent read.

https://archive.is/OEAho

> The term “infantry” derives from “infant"

No, it doesn't, do they both words do (eventually) trace back to the same Latin root.

> Five hundred years later, infantrymen remain the most disposable of troops. But in Ukraine they are also the most essential

Infantry being essential describes every war.

> No, it doesn't, do they both words do (eventually) trace back to the same Latin root.

So it does. "Derives" does not imply a single step.

1570s, from French infantrie, infanterie (16c.), from older Italian or Spanish infanteria "foot soldiers, force composed of those too inexperienced or low in rank to be cavalry," a collective noun from infante "foot soldier," originally "a youth," from Latin infantem (see infant). [1]

[1] https://www.etymonline.com/word/infantry