01Why it exists
Counted, not summarised
Conflict coverage collapses into whichever war is currently legible to a newsroom. Cameroon has been at war since 2016 with near-zero Western coverage. Myanmar has been at war since 1948. A list doesn't fix that. It does make the omission visible, which is the smallest useful thing a list can do.
02Parts list
- Tiered by costMajor war, significant, active: ranked by what each one costs, not by how often it's in the news.
- What a ceasefire means hereSeveral entries are marked as ceasefires and are still killing people. The agreement and the ground are different objects, and the badges say which one is being described.
- Filter and findBy tier, by region, by whether a ceasefire exists on paper, or by searching for an actor or a place.
03Construction
Built on
Leaflet with dark map tiles; the entries are the write-up's own words. Map positions are approximate centres of the fighting, for orientation only.
LeafletOpenStreetMapCARTO
04Tolerances
A snapshot as of June 2026, not a live feed; figures are as reported then. The point is the shape of the list, not the precision of any one number.
what it is not, said plainly
05Inscription
Twenty-eight, counted.
06The same room
- VigilA private command screen
- OverheadLive satellite tracking from CelesTrak element sets, propagated with SGP4 in your browser: ground tracks, the day-night line, and every pass over you, with the ones you can see by eye marked.
- CartographA 3D atlas from the planets to the first galaxies: 140+ objects at their real positions across ten views, each cited to the instrument that measured it, plus live satellites around Earth.
- Per CapitaForty-three US cities, four crime categories, FBI data projected to 2025