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The Archive
Collection AR · Modern Day · 1 January 2026 — 21 February 2026

The record of fifty days

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.

33files
73subjects
25originals
10withheld
1report outstanding

Principal files

AR-001 · overview

The Atlantic Rupture

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…

AR-002 · event

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 Brigade landed at Kangerlussuaq …

AR-003 · event

The European asset freeze

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…

AR-004 · event

The American retrograde from Europe

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…

AR-005 · event

The B61 vault standoff

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…

AR-006 · event

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 saturation strike that destroyed the Fr…

AR-007 · operation

Operation Albion Anvil

Operation Albion Anvil is the American campaign against the United Kingdom, planned in seven days of continuous modelling and delivered to the White H…

AR-008 · event

The North Sea action

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…

AR-009 · topic

Continuous At-Sea Deterrent

The Continuous At-Sea Deterrent is the British practice, unbroken since 1969, of keeping at least one Vanguard -class ballistic missile submarine on p…

AR-010 · topic

Sustainment interdiction

Sustainment interdiction is the practice, first executed at scale in January 2026, of disabling exported military equipment by withdrawing the service…

The ledger

2026-01-01 The Greenland directive withheld 2026-01-03 Pentagon completes the Arctic assault study withheld 2026-01-04 The kill-chain briefing withheld 2026-01-10 The severance withheld 2026-01-13 Europe grounds its stealth fleet open 2026-01-16 The carrier is released withheld 2026-01-17 The Pentagon purge open 2026-01-19 The walkout open 2026-01-19 Marines land in Greenland open 2026-01-20 Europe freezes the dollar open 2026-01-21 The basing lockout open 2026-01-23 Operation Boreal Bridge open 2026-01-26 The retrograde, and the fuel nobody could sell open 2026-01-26 Rutte asks for one page withheld 2026-01-27 The first sanctions ever placed on the United States open 2026-01-29 The cordons close around the vaults open 2026-01-31 Allies garrison Iceland open 2026-02-02 The maritime blacklist open 2026-02-03 Four courses of action for sixty warheads withheld 2026-02-07 Northern Hinge, and the warning about Britain withheld 2026-02-09 Operation Northern Hinge open 2026-02-11 Lakenheath, and the combined command open 2026-02-14 Albion Anvil is delivered withheld 2026-02-16 Phase I: the first strikes on Britain since 1945 open 2026-02-19 Phase II: the North Sea open 2026-02-24 Phase III staging report — due withheld
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