Map · 2026.10.09

A daily reading of the world, in French first.

The map below opens 250 country files. Each one fits on a single page: regime, head of state, head of government, alliances, at-a-glance reading.

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Today's watch

CARNET · 2026.05.27

Field notebook. Pokrovsk, Kupiansk, Kherson: what the spread of FPV and fiber-optic drones changes.

by L'Aube Étoilée

CARNET · 2026.05.26

Field notebook. After nineteen months of offensive, the pivot to reconstruction redistributes the actors: Cairo, Doha, Riyadh, Abu Dhabi, Ankara.

by L'Aube Étoilée

CARNET · 2026.05.25

Field notebook. After the 2024 strikes and the erosion of the axis of resistance, Tehran is now playing a defensive game.

by L'Aube Étoilée

INFLUENCE · 2026.05.24

Influence note. Four months in, US foreign policy reads like a return to the 1980s, weighted by technology.

by L'Aube Étoilée

2026.05.27 Ukraine: the drone war has shifted the line of effort
Field notebook. Pokrovsk, Kupiansk, Kherson: what the spread of FPV and fiber-optic drones changes.
2026.05.26 Gaza, year two: reconstruction as a political battlefield
Field notebook. After nineteen months of offensive, the pivot to reconstruction redistributes the actors: Cairo, Doha, Riyadh, Abu Dhabi, Ankara.
2026.05.25 Iran: weakened regime, diffuse nuclear program
Field notebook. After the 2024 strikes and the erosion of the axis of resistance, Tehran is now playing a defensive game.
2026.05.23 Sudan: the deadliest civil war nobody watches
Field notebook. Two years of SAF versus RSF: Khartoum cut in two, Darfur ravaged, the UAE-Egypt axis structuring the ground.
2026.05.22 Bab-el-Mandeb: the strait that sets the container price
Field notebook. Eighteen months into the Houthi campaign, traffic has not returned. The cost, the reveal.
2026.05.05 Why we read the world from the Dawn
Editorial manifesto. A francophone geopolitics, methodical, without guardianship or mimicry.