Open source, online investigations covering the unconventional.
Ukraine’s 155th Mechanized Brigade was positioned as the pinnacle of inter-European cooperation – but mass desertions and institutional ineptitude nearly derailed the project before it began. OffBeat Research speaks to “Ivan”, an early deserter, about his time in training and his decision to go AWOL during training in France.
OP-ED: For years, US policy in Syria has led from behind. In the shadow of HTS’s evolution and the country’s new reality, a pragmatic policy reassessment is long overdue.
A retrospective on the lives of townspeople in Kyiv oblast during the early days of Russia’s 2022 invasion and failed attempts to encircle Kyiv.
Dylan Burns tours Bilopillya – a front line town in Sumy oblast, whose residents have shown remarkable resilience amid nearly three years of indiscriminate Russian bombardment.
Dylan Burns observes training movements from the 100th Mechanized Brigade’s IFV “Marder” crew outside Toretsk, in Donetsk oblast.
Dylan Burns embeds with a Grad artillery team near the crucial front line city of Pokrovsk, where Russian advances threaten to topple one of Ukraine’s major logistical hubs.
Tracking the adoption, proliferation, and increased use of glide bombs by Russian and Ukrainian forces since 2022.
An Offbeat Research guide to identifying new, unique, and never-previously-used landmines deployed by Russian and Ukrainian forces on the battlefield in Ukraine.
Embedding with a Ukrainian tank crew fielding a T-80 captured on the front lines from Russian forces.
A conversation with the (now-former) World Health Organization representative to Syria, originally published in May 2021, provides insight into later claims of corruption, fraud, and abuse allegedly perpetrated by her office in regime-held Syria.