Opinion: What gets lost in the 'Big Picture'

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Martha Gellhorn, the great war correspondent, once wrote in the British literary journal Granta:

"In war, I never knew anything beyond what I could see and hear.

"The Big Picture always exists," she said, "and I seem to have spent my life observing how desperately the Big Picture affects the little people who did not devise it and have no control over it."

News organizations will report the Big Picture, of strategies, analysis, and political calculations, as we cover the world's conflicts in Israel and Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan, Yemen and elsewhere. Armchair generals and studio polemicists will propound different points of view. But soldiers who fight those wars, and civilians who try to struggle through them, are trying only to survive.