Every file this archive holds was written inside the events it describes. 10 of the 26 original records were classified when they were made, and they are the ones that say who decided, what was advised, and what was refused. They are here, under bars. Clearance lifts them.
The Atlantic Rupture is the name given to the collapse of the North Atlantic alliance system and the war that followed it, between 10 January and 19 F…
The occupation of Greenland began at 17:30 UTC on 19 January 2026, when lead elements of the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade landed at Kangerlussuaq …
The European asset freeze was adopted by an emergency European Council on the morning of 20 January 2026, sixteen hours after American forces landed i…
The retrograde is the withdrawal of American forces from Europe ordered on 24 January 2026 — the largest movement of American forces out of the contin…
The vault standoff began at 17:00 on 29 January 2026, when German, Dutch, and Belgian military police sealed the airfield infrastructure around the th…
Operation Northern Hinge was the American assault on Iceland on 9 February 2026. Beginning at 02:40 UTC with a saturation strike that destroyed the Fr…
Operation Albion Anvil is the American campaign against the United Kingdom, planned in seven days of continuous modelling and delivered to the White H…
The North Sea action of 18 February 2026 was the largest naval surface engagement between Western powers in eight decades. Seventy miles east of Shetl…
The Continuous At-Sea Deterrent is the British practice, unbroken since 1969, of keeping at least one Vanguard -class ballistic missile submarine on p…
Sustainment interdiction is the practice, first executed at scale in January 2026, of disabling exported military equipment by withdrawing the service…