Punishing The Orbit
Bombs break fixed positions, drones suppress what survives and open routes through the obstacles, and infantry follows on foot to take the ground. The problem is timing: a bomb can remove a building in seconds, but the infantry meant to exploit it may still be days away.
The Retraction Loop
The northern claw is gone, collected the way these things always are — the arrows showed up to record a result produced weeks earlier. Lyman is the reference; this is what it costs.