This is CBS I Am The World. I'm John Batsy with Colonel Jeff McCawson.

United States Army retired CBS News visiting Professor Dickinson College in the Great Keystone

State, as well as CEO of Diamond Six Leadership and Strategy. He is in Kenya and we're looking

to the battlefield in Eastern Ukraine. It is not a stalemate. I'm told repeatedly. It

is an offensive that is minimizing casualties on the Ukrainian side and destroying the logistics

on the Russian side. It is slow going, especially because Ukraine does not have adequate air

if any air. And it is expected to continue to be slow gone. This is Luhansk, Tnetsk,

Zaparizha and Harrison Oblost all fronting the Crimea. Jeff at this point, the expectation

is slow. Does that mean a year, two years? What does slow mean in your interpretation?

Well, I think he's this idea of slow, John. Maybe the inappropriate way of describing

it, but slow relative to what? Slow relative to expectations. That's certainly true. And

even as this offensive got under way, it appeared to me that Ukrainian Ministry of Defense

and Military Officials were trying to dampen down expectations. A lot of people, I think,

believed that this influx of a lot of sophisticated Western military hardware would see a rather

rapid advance, not unlike the Ukrainians that had done last fall around the Harkiv, something

not unlike the Gulf War that I've just spayed it in. And that expectation was far too high.

So speed relative to what? I think maybe a better way of looking at it is tempo. And tempo

seems to be more in line with what's happening. Yes, it's slow, but don't forget the defense

has the major advantage. And the Russians have prepared very formal defenses, trench lines,

lots of minefields. And this is an open area. So also allows the Russians to more effectively

use air power and artillery against advancing Ukrainian forces. But there are, the Ukrainians

are persistent. And when you think about tempo, it's also a question of who is reacting

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