A geopolitical intelligence platform built around the map
WarWatch is a geopolitical intelligence platform: for every country it holds a dossier that states who governs it, which sanctions regimes list it, what the IMF and World Bank say about its economy and how it scores on eight posture axes — and ties that dossier to a live map of the conflict reporting about it.
What WarWatch holds on each country
Leadership
Sanctions
Macro figures
Debrief and posture
The distinction between sourced and written is deliberate and is kept on the panel: a figure with a publisher is quoted from the publisher, and the model is not asked for numbers it could only remember.
Why the dossier lives on the globe
Geopolitical context is most useful at the moment a report arrives. On WarWatch the dossier opens from the same globe that carries the alerts, so a marker in a country and the state behind that country are one click apart: its severity band and trend, its brief for the week, its sanctions exposure, the corridors and supply-chain assets within reach.
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Signal
A report enters from one of 45 news and OSINT sources and is classified for type, severity and the countries it concerns. - 02
Country
The country's severity band and escalation trend move with the volume of conflict reporting about it. - 03
Context
The dossier states the government, the sanctions, the economy and the posture — sourced where a publisher exists. - 04
Exposure
Nearby straits and assets show what the same event could touch: a corridor's route health, a plant's alerts within 50 km.
Platform, map or news feed
| Criterion | News feed | Live conflict map | Geopolitical intelligence platform |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unit of organisation | The story | The event | The state, with its events and context |
| Persistence | Scrolls away | Expires from the map | A standing profile, updated on change |
| Answers | What was said | Where it was reported | What kind of state, under what pressure, trending which way |
| On WarWatch | Intel feed and archive | The globe and its alerts | The dossier, posture radar, sanctions and macro block |
Who it serves
- Analysts who need a comparable, dated baseline per country before reading the day’s reporting.
- Journalists checking a government, a sanctions status or a debt figure without opening four registers.
- Investors and risk teams reading a country’s posture and exposure beside the conflict trend.
- Students and researchers who want the source URL under every figure.
How the sourced layer is kept honest
Every fact that has a publisher is stored with its URL and its as-of date, and a fact older than six years is not quoted as current. Leadership is cross-checked in fifteen languages before a name is published, because the register it comes from is world-writable. Two sources spelling one person differently is not treated as a change of government. A projection from the IMF is labelled as a projection and never reaches a field that reads as measured.
Limitations
- Registers publish on their own schedule: a handover recorded late reaches the dossier late.
- Macro figures are annual or projected; they describe a year, not a week.
- The written analysis can be wrong in ways the sourced figures are not, which is why the two are kept apart.
- Public information is the ceiling: what governments and publishers do not say, the dossier does not know.
The same dossiers are available programmatically through /api/v1/countries.
Frequently asked questions
- What is a geopolitical intelligence platform?
- A geopolitical intelligence platform organises information about states — their governments, alliances, sanctions, economies, military posture and the conflicts they are in — into a structured, comparable form. It differs from a news service in that it maintains a standing profile per country rather than a stream of stories, and from a live map in that it explains the state behind the marker.
- Where do the country dossier figures come from?
- Figures that have a publisher are fetched from that publisher and stored with the source URL and the date: office holders from Wikipedia's current-leaders list cross-checked against Wikidata, sanctions from the OFAC, EU, UN and UK OFSI registers, macro figures from the IMF World Economic Outlook and the World Bank. The written analysis is model-generated from those facts and from the country's recent conflict reporting, and the page says which parts are which.
- What is the strategic posture radar?
- Eight axes — including military, political, diplomatic, economic and financial — scored per country and drawn as a radar so states can be compared at a glance. The radar is free to view; the underlying prose is part of the dossier.
- How is WarWatch different from a geopolitical risk consultancy?
- It is a monitoring platform built on public information, updated automatically and priced for individuals. It does not provide bespoke analysis, on-the-ground sources or advice, and it should not be treated as a substitute for professional intelligence services.
- How often are the dossiers rewritten?
- On a schedule set by how much is happening in the country: from three weeks for the most reported states to a year for those with no reporting. Between rewrites, a change in office holder or sanctions status queues a rewrite, and sourced figures are updated in place without one.
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WarWatch (war-watch.com) is a global conflict intelligence platform built on publicly available information: news wires, regional press, public OSINT feeds and open datasets. Conflict information changes quickly and early reports are often incomplete or later revised. Nothing on this site is a substitute for official security guidance, and no event shown here should be treated as independently confirmed unless a source says so.