{"schema_version":"1.0","updated":"2026-08-13","counts":{"total":4,"live":4,"coming_soon":0},"focuses":[{"number":1,"slug":"national-defense","route":"/national-defense","title":"National Defense Statecraft","short_title":"National defense","status":"live","status_label":"Current analysis","thesis":"Deter war by making military advantage, industrial endurance, and allied access credible together.","summary":"The National Advantage Observatory compares ten U.S. and credible-allied military and defense-industrial capability systems against a PRC high-end benchmark.","primary_question":"Where does usable U.S. and credible-allied defense advantage hold now, what could break it, and what action would preserve or regain it?","unit_of_analysis":"Fielded capability systems and their decisive mission threads","method_label":"Ordinal relative advantage with explicit confidence","outputs":["Ten-capability assessment","Ten applied analyses","Public JSON and audit data"],"accent":"defense","api_url":"/api/v1/assessment"},{"number":2,"slug":"economic-industrial","route":"/economic-industrial","title":"Economic & Industrial Statecraft","short_title":"Economics & industry","status":"live","status_label":"Current analysis","thesis":"Power must be financed, produced, moved, protected, and regenerated.","summary":"A source-traced comparison of financial leverage, industrial depth, strategic dependencies, technology chokepoints, coalition capacity, and whether economic tools actually change behavior.","primary_question":"Can the United States and participating partners create leverage, absorb coercion, and regenerate strategic capacity at an acceptable cost?","unit_of_analysis":"Economic systems, campaign mechanisms, delivery stages, and observable outcomes","method_label":"Asymmetric diagnosis; no composite economic-power score","outputs":["Eight-driver baseline","Six applied campaign cases","Delivery ledger and indicators"],"accent":"economic","api_url":"/api/v1/statecrafts/economic-industrial"},{"number":3,"slug":"diplomacy-coalitions","route":"/diplomacy-coalitions","title":"Diplomacy & Coalition Statecraft","short_title":"Diplomacy & coalitions","status":"live","status_label":"Current analysis","thesis":"Alignment matters only when it becomes coordinated access, bargaining power, and action.","summary":"A source-traced comparison of diplomatic reach, informal access, coalition formation, commitments, usable access, activation, delivery, institutional leadership, and durability.","primary_question":"Which system better turns diplomatic relationships into voluntary, usable, coordinated, and durable action: a U.S.-anchored coalition or a PRC-centered coalition, with participating partners identified separately?","unit_of_analysis":"Diplomatic networks, coalition commitments, conversion pathways, institutional portfolios, and negotiated outcomes","method_label":"Relationship-to-durable-effect analysis; no composite diplomatic-power score","outputs":["Nine independent capability positions","Twenty-six-case comparison portfolio","Public evidence, review, and structured data"],"accent":"diplomacy","api_url":"/api/v1/statecrafts/diplomacy-coalitions"},{"number":4,"slug":"information-influence","route":"/information-influence","title":"Information & Influence","short_title":"Information & influence","status":"live","status_label":"Current analysis","thesis":"Information becomes power only when relevant actors encounter it, trust it, and change durable choices or behavior.","summary":"A source-traced comparison of information understanding, narrative policy, content agility, distribution, credibility, cultural influence, conversion, counter-influence, and adaptation.","primary_question":"Which national information system better understands foreign environments, reaches relevant actors, earns credibility, creates cultural affinity, and converts attention into durable effects?","unit_of_analysis":"Information systems, audiences, messengers, cultural networks, causal stages, and observed effects","method_label":"Exposure-to-persistent-effect analysis; no composite information-power score","outputs":["Nine independent capability rulings","Thirty-case comparison portfolio","Public evidence, review, and structured data"],"accent":"information","api_url":"/api/v1/statecrafts/information-influence"}]}