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Recent event briefs from ISA’s analysts
The H1 2026 Ledger: What ISA Got Right, Got Wrong, and What's Still Open
Twenty timestamped calls from the first half of 2026: eight confirmed, three partially confirmed, nine still open. ISA grades its own work in public.
Mamdani's Marxists Win New York. The Party Has No Answer
The two Democrats best positioned to stop the rising tide of Marxism in New York can't afford the fight.
U.S. Won the War but Couldn't Dictate the Peace
American airpower destroyed Iran's nuclear program and broke its conventional military, but Washington couldn't convert that battlefield dominance into political submission.
Public backlash erupts over Henry Nowak bodycam release
The Nowak bodycam footage gave critics who allege the British government is running a "two-tier" criminal justice system visceral evidence for their claim.
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Institutional credibility, strategic battlespace analysis, and principle-collision detection — revealing how attacks land, how defenses hold, and which institutions are quietly bleeding power.
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