Most military-history content online is one of two things: a thin AI-generated summary, or a dense Wikipedia article you have to reverse-engineer. Neither lets you actually move through a conflict — open a war, follow its campaigns, see where the battles sit in time and on the ground.
The War Atlas is a cross-linked catalogue built on three rules it states on the homepage: source-cited (every figure and outcome traces to primary evidence), no filler (real entities and real citations only — no machine-generated summary pages), and cross-linked (wars connect to their battles, commanders, and factions). The data is built on Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Commons under their licenses, with sourcing made explicit.
"The catalogue is live and the interactive map is still in development — I'd rather ship a real, cited dataset than a slick map over numbers nobody can verify."
Coverage runs from the U.S. Civil War through the Russo-Ukrainian war. It's a Next.js app, server-rendered so the content is real HTML for crawlers and readers alike — the map layer (battle nodes, campaign routes, a scrubbable timeline) is being built on top of the catalogue that already exists.