Conflict modules
Each module covers one conflict in depth — the map, the actors, the forces, the history and the economics, cross-linked and sourced. One conflict, covered properly, beats five covered thinly; further modules follow only when each one meets the standard.
Russia–Ukraine
Public alphaThe largest interstate war in Europe since 1945, now an attritional contest of industrial capacity, manpower, and political endurance. Its outcome will set the price of territorial aggression for a generation — which is why capitals far from Kyiv treat it as a referendum on their own security.
Mali: War in the Sahel
Public alphaMali is an overlapping conflict system, not a two-sided war: jihadist insurgency, Azawad separatism, military rule, foreign security partnerships, regional competition, humanitarian crisis and economic stress, all running at once. There is no clean front line — the state holds cities while its enemies hold the roads between them, and in 2026 both the north and the capital's approaches came under pressure at the same time.