Strait of Hormuz

A war was launched over an imminent nuclear threat. Now the threat has vanished from the conversation — and "degraded" is doing all the work.

AIS data, dark vessels, and the quiet organizations—UKMTO, IMB, Windward—that watch the world's shipping.

Transponder gaps, paired blackouts, and satellite fingerprinting — how analysts actually catch sanctioned oil moving at sea.

A tool that works reliably — and still gets switched off. What over-editing studies reveal about why AI rewrites more than you asked.