When rehabilitation of military personnel comes up, the first thing most people picture is a prosthesis. Sometimes a psychologist. But there is another category that does not look like an injury at all, and that is in all likelihood far larger than it is assumed to be: injuries to the back. When I began working on opening a veterans' rehabilitation centre, it seemed sensible to look at the numbers. Ukrainian data on this is still thin, which makes the figures from NATO armies

Коли мова йде про реабілітацію військових, частіше на думку спадає протезування. Іноді може бути психолог. Але є ще одна категорія, яка не виглядає як поранення і яка, найімовірніше, значно масштабніша, ніж про неї думають – травми спини. Коли я почала працювати над відкриттям ветеранського реабілітаційного центру, корисно було подивитись на цифри. Українських даних з цього питання поки недостатньо, тому цікавими можуть бути дані з армій НАТО – там вони збирають статистику не

Between 2015 and 2026, allied countries ran a machine for moving military knowledge into Ukraine. Most of the attention went to what was taught. Less went to the machinery around it, which is what decides whether anything arrives. That machinery had five components. Each had to exist for the others to be worth anything. A place Sites, ranges, classrooms, accommodation: funded, staffed, available on a schedule. Knowledge does not transfer in the abstract. It transfers in rooms

A command post at a training site in Germany stood unused for a single reason: it had been designated Building 200. In Ukrainian military usage 200 denotes a fatality and 300 denotes a wounded man, and the Ukrainian soldiers would not work inside it. Their instructors treated the objection as superstition. The case is documented in an assessment published by the Modern War Institute at West Point, which compares the dismissal to overlooking why an American building has no thi