Wars are all about ebb and flow. No matter how much winning you do, there are times when you have hunker down. One of the things you learn in the military is that the enemy has a voice. Or, to put it another way, the best laid plans go south when the firing starts.

No matter how powerful your force is or how right your cause is, the enemy has artillery as well. And when they fire, all you can do is hunker down and ride it out. And there’s no question there will be casualties, because some of the rounds will hit close enough to wound.

Or even kill. What we’re seeing now in the media is incoming fire. They’ve detected that we’re advancing, and they’ve started an artillery barrage in an attempt to stop our advance. It won’t work.