2026-07-11
The Azov record was renamed to its current designation (12th Special Forces Brigade "Azov") and placed under the National Guard's 1st Corps "Azov" (2025), with predecessor lineage recorded back to the 2014 volunteer battalion.
Conflict coverage · Central Sahel
Force Atlas
The Force Atlas is a structured catalogue of major publicly documented forces, formations, and equipment — how it is organised, what the record states mean, and where to start reading.
Explore the system13 analytical layers in this conflict
Understand
Military & security
Effects & resilience
Follow
Context, not targeting. This atlas describes structure and history. It deliberately excludes current locations, live strength, unit movements, and anything operationally sensitive — the content model has no fields for them. See the methodology.
Force StructureThe full command tree for each side — who sits under whom, with the subordination of every record stated and graded.FormationsEvery formation as a searchable list, when you know the unit you are looking for rather than where it sits.
AES states & allied forces
14 records10 reviewed profiles · 2 historical / lineage records.
4 structured stubs awaiting source review.
Joint · 4Land · 1Air · 1Interior / security · 2Volunteer / irregular · 6
External security partners
5 records4 reviewed profiles · 1 historical / lineage record.
1 structured stub awaiting source review.
Volunteer / irregular · 5
Azawad movements
8 records4 reviewed profiles · 5 historical / lineage records.
4 structured stubs awaiting source review.
Volunteer / irregular · 8
JNIM & lineage
8 records5 reviewed profiles · 4 historical / lineage records.
3 structured stubs awaiting source review.
Volunteer / irregular · 8
Islamic State Sahel
1 record1 reviewed profile.
Volunteer / irregular · 1
Regional & international (historical)
7 records3 reviewed profiles · 6 historical / lineage records.
4 structured stubs awaiting source review.
Joint · 6Special operations · 1
Equipment catalogue
25 systemsFamily-level records of major publicly documented systems — never quantities, readiness or allocations.
Structure. Each side is a set of trees: state military, interior forces, and browsing groups. A record marked “Grouping · not a command” exists only so related organisations can be found together — its members do not share a command, and each states its real parent institution.
Record states. A full profile has passed source review. A stub is an honest structural placeholder — name, place in the tree, broad role, and a dated status — awaiting research. Records that cannot yet meet even that threshold are held internally and do not appear on the site at all.
Subordination grades. Parent links are graded:confirmed, reported, disputed,historical, or unknown. Where a current parent cannot be verified — as with brigades amid Ukraine's rolling corps reform — the record says unknown rather than inventing precision.
Lineage, not amnesia. Reorganised, merged or disbanded organisations keep their records, marked with dated predecessor and successor links — Wagner's absorption after 2023 and the Donetsk and Luhansk corps are carried this way, never as if unchanged.
Every record carries a status as of date for its claims and a separate reviewed date for editorial checks — a review never silently refreshes a status date.
2026-07-11
KRAKEN 1654 (previously listed as "Kraken" under the National Guard) was re-grouped under intelligence-linked formations, reflecting its documented 2022 military-intelligence origin. Its current formal subordination is publicly contested and remains marked disputed pending source review; it has not been assigned to the 3rd Army Corps.
2026-07-11
Russian Naval Infantry was shown directly under the Armed Forces of Russia; it is now correctly placed as a component of the Russian Navy, which has been added as a branch record.
2026-07-11
The collapsed "Navy & Naval Infantry" node was split: the Navy record now covers the fleet arm, and the Marine Corps has its own record as a structurally distinct branch established in 2023.
2026-07-11
The Aerospace Forces (VKS) record, previously a single flat branch, now carries its umbrella structure: Air Force, Air & Missile Defence Forces and Space Forces.
2026-07-11
The Wagner-successor record is now titled "Wagner Group → Africa Corps" and carries machine-readable lineage (formed 2014, reorganised 2023 under Ministry of Defence control) instead of presenting the organisation as institutionally unchanged.
Full history on the corrections log.