THE GENERAL’S CONSENSUS: Over the past few days, three of America’s top Army generals — two retired, one about to retire — have weighed in on the slow pace of Ukraine’s counteroffensive aimed at breaking through Russian lines, severing Russia’s land bridge to Crimea, and liberating much of the occupied south, including Crimea, illegally annexed by Russia in 2014.

Retired Gen. David Petraeus, who commanded “the surge” in Iraq and U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan, has written an op-ed in the Washington Post with Fred Kagan of the American Enterprise Institute. Retired Gen. Wes Clark, the supreme NATO commander who waged the war in Kosovo in 1999, has a piece in the Daily Beast. And Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley, who retires next month, gave an interview last week to Jordan’s Al Mamlaka TV.