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The Atlantic Rupture

• The Atlantic Rupture The Atlantic Rupture is the name given to the collapse of the North Atlantic alliance system and the war that followed i…
• The Greenland directive The Greenland directive is the instruction issued by the President of the United States to the Secretary of Defense on 1…
• The ODIN severance The ODIN severance was the revocation, at 03:00 Eastern time on 10 January 2026, of allied access to the Operational Dat…
• The Pentagon purge The Pentagon purge was the removal on 17 January 2026 of the Department of Defense General Counsel, the Under Secretary …
• The North Atlantic Council walkout The walkout occurred on the afternoon of 19 January 2026, when the permanent representative of the United States left an…
• The occupation of Greenland The occupation of Greenland began at 17:30 UTC on 19 January 2026, when lead elements of the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Br…
• The European asset freeze The European asset freeze was adopted by an emergency European Council on the morning of 20 January 2026, sixteen hours …
• The Greenland restrictive measures regime The Greenland restrictive measures regime is the sanctions architecture adopted by the European Union on 27 January 2026…
• The European basing lockout The basing lockout was the coordinated revocation on 21 January 2026 of diplomatic clearances for American military flig…
• Operation Boreal Bridge Operation Boreal Bridge is the American emergency airlift established on 23 January 2026 to sustain the Greenland lodgme…
• The American retrograde from Europe The retrograde is the withdrawal of American forces from Europe ordered on 24 January 2026 — the largest movement of Ame…
• The B61 vault standoff The vault standoff began at 17:00 on 29 January 2026, when German, Dutch, and Belgian military police sealed the airfiel…
• Rutte's appeal Rutte's appeal is the private message sent by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte to the President of the United States on…
• Operation Northern Guardian Operation Northern Guardian was the allied garrison of Iceland, deployed on 31 January 2026 by the United Kingdom, Franc…
• Operation Northern Hinge and the occupation of Iceland Operation Northern Hinge was the American assault on Iceland on 9 February 2026. Beginning at 02:40 UTC with a saturatio…
• The internment at Lakenheath On the morning of 11 February 2026 the British Army requisitioned RAF Lakenheath, RAF Mildenhall, and RAF Fairford under…
• The Anglo-French combined command The combined command is the unified Franco-British wartime structure established at Northwood Headquarters on 11 Februar…
• Operation Albion Anvil Operation Albion Anvil is the American campaign against the United Kingdom, planned in seven days of continuous modellin…
• The North Atlantic submarine campaign The submarine campaign is the subsurface war fought from 7 to 19 February 2026 for the location of the British and Frenc…
• The North Sea action The North Sea action of 18 February 2026 was the largest naval surface engagement between Western powers in eight decade…
• USS Gettysburg USS Gettysburg (CG-64) was a Ticonderoga -class guided-missile cruiser of the United States Navy, sunk in the North Sea …
• Pete Hegseth Pete Hegseth is the United States Secretary of Defense throughout the Atlantic Rupture. He carried out the removal of th…
• Mark Rutte Mark Rutte is the Secretary General of NATO during the Atlantic Rupture. He spent the entire period telephoning capitals…
• Sir Keir Starmer Sir Keir Starmer is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the Atlantic Rupture. He committed British forces to…
• The President of the United States The President of the United States ordered every action of the Atlantic Rupture. He also explained it, continuously and …
• Continuous At-Sea Deterrent The Continuous At-Sea Deterrent is the British practice, unbroken since 1969, of keeping at least one Vanguard -class ba…
• NATO nuclear sharing NATO nuclear sharing is the arrangement, dating from 1968, under which American nuclear weapons are stored on the territ…
• Sustainment interdiction Sustainment interdiction is the practice, first executed at scale in January 2026, of disabling exported military equipm…
• Section 1250A Section 1250A of the National Defense Authorization Act bars the use of Department of Defense funds to implement a withd…
• NATO after the rupture NATO did not dissolve during the Atlantic Rupture. It continued to meet, to consult, and to take decisions — with thirty…
• Casualties and losses Recorded human and material losses of the Atlantic Rupture to 19 February 2026. The totals remain small by the standards…
• International reactions Positions taken by states and institutions during the Atlantic Rupture. The alignment was more complete than any Europea…