STRUCTURE ADDED, AND A MISSING VOCABULARY. Ukraine's Logistics Forces and Medical Forces were carried as branch records with no substructure at all, because the atlas had no honest word for the bodies they are built from: a central directorate and a military medical clinical centre are not formations, and filing either as one forced a tactical echelon ("brigade") onto it. The record model now carries a "support organisation" type with four organisational echelons — directorate, centre, institution and depot — and eighteen records were added under the two branches: the Armament and Rear services with their named central directorates and the 63rd Repair Base, and the six regional military medical clinical centres, the mobile hospitals and the Ukrainian Military Medical Academy. Both branch records were promoted from structural stubs to reviewed profiles.
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.
Taiwan / ROC
6 records6 reviewed profiles.
PRC
8 records6 reviewed profiles · 3 historical / lineage records.
2 structured stubs awaiting source review.
United States
1 record1 reviewed profile.
Regional states
3 records1 reviewed profile.
2 structured stubs awaiting source review.
Equipment catalogue
17 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Aerospace Forces (VKS) record, previously a single flat branch, now carries its umbrella structure: Air Force, Air & Missile Defence Forces and Space Forces.
Full history on the corrections log.