The Conflict Workbench
Conflict Tracking is the default workbench and the richest one. It's built for armed-conflict intelligence: mapping events, tracking the forces involved, watching for escalation, and fusing open-source reporting into a single weighted picture. If you signed in and changed nothing, this is where you are — the switcher pill reads ⚔️ Conflict Tracking in red.
This article is a map of the workbench; each capability links to its own article. Think of it as the index you return to when you're not sure where a task lives.
What it tracks
- Events — discrete, located incidents: strikes, clashes, manoeuvres, and more.
- Actors — the factions and forces involved, with aliases, territory, and behaviour over time.
- Military units — specific elements on the ground, drawn with NATO-standard symbology.
- Areas of interest (AOIs) — analyst-defined regions to scope and alert on.
- Critical infrastructure — fixed assets that matter to the picture.
- Escalation signals — patterns and forecasts about where a situation is heading.
- Fused intel — the graded, clustered output of the intel pipeline.
The sidebar tabs
In Conflict the sidebar offers the full set, reachable from the left rail or the tab icons:
| Tab | What it's for |
|---|---|
| Events | Browse, filter, create, and inspect events — see Events |
| Feeds | Connect and manage live sources — see Feeds & Sources |
| Layers | Toggle imagery and data layers on the globe |
| Annotate | Draw markers, lines, areas, circles, and measurements |
| Actors | Track forces and their territory — see Actors & Territory |
| AOI | Define and monitor areas of interest |
| Stats | At-a-glance totals and trends (gateway to the Analytics Engine) |
| Intel | The fused intel feed |
| Browser | Find, group, and curate everything in the battlespace — see The Battlespace Browser |
Beyond the sidebar
The header and Tools menu add the heavier machinery: the Intel Fusion Engine (⚡ Intel), the Analyst Review Queue (🎯 Queue), the Intel Causal Graph (⇢ Graph), Predictions and Escalation Signatures, Deception Flags, Watchlist, and Intel Products. The header's alert badges (deception, watchlist, triage) keep time-sensitive items in view so nothing urgent slips past while you're heads-down.
A typical flow
A common way to work the Conflict workbench, start to finish:
- Focus a battlespace for the situation you're tracking (see Battlespaces).
- Connect feeds so live reporting flows in (see Feeds & Sources).
- Define the actors involved, so reporting gets attributed to a side (see Actors & Territory).
- Watch events and intel accumulate on the map, graded by credibility.
- Track territory as the actors' control and influence shift.
- Watch for escalation via predictions and signatures (see Escalation & Predictions).
- Trace cause and effect in the Intel Causal Graph.
- Triage near-confirmed items in the Analyst Review Queue, where your confirmation is final.
You won't do all of this every session — but that sequence is the shape of the work.
Where to next
- Events — the atomic incidents at the centre of the picture.
- Actors & Territory — the forces and the ground they hold.