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The AI Strategic Posture panel (internal id strategic-posture) surfaces theater-level military posture assessments — the cached “seed” view of each theater blended in real time with live military-vessel movements so the rendered posture reflects today’s deployments, not yesterday’s.

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What the panel shows

A vertical list of theater posture cards. Each card includes the theater name, the current posture summary, and click-through affordances: selecting a theater fires an optional location-click callback so the host can zoom the map to its coordinates. The panel’s internal loading UX is notable: it tracks elapsed time with a setInterval while waiting for the posture + vessels fetch to resolve, so the reader gets a visible progress signal on slow runs. When the seed is stale, the panel sets a stale indicator (isStale) so the card surface can flag it. Under the hood the panel:
  1. Loads cached posture via fetchCachedTheaterPosture().
  2. Fetches current military vessels via fetchMilitaryVessels().
  3. Recomputes posture on-the-fly with recalcPostureWithVessels() so the displayed summary is a fresh surge estimate, not just the cached value.
Panel id is strategic-posture; canonical component is src/components/StrategicPosturePanel.ts. Title resolves from i18n (panels.strategicPosture); config sets 'AI Strategic Posture' at src/config/panels.ts:23.

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How you reach it

  • Cmd+K: type posture or strategic.
  • Availability by variant: registered and enabled by default in the full/geopolitical variant only. Free on the web; on desktop the variant registration spreads { premium: 'enhanced' as const } into the config so the panel becomes enhanced-gated on the desktop build. Source: 'strategic-posture' entry in FULL_PANELS at src/config/panels.ts:23 (no premium set; desktop variants elsewhere layer on enhanced gating per the _desktop && pattern).

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Data sources

  • Cached posture: seed-level theater posture summaries, read via @/services/cached-theater-posture.
  • Military vessels: live positions via @/services/military-vessels (the same feed that drives the military map layer).
  • Surge recalculation: recalcPostureWithVessels() in @/services/military-surge blends cached baseline with today’s vessel positions to produce the displayed TheaterPostureSummary.

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Refresh cadence

The panel is not on a polling timer — it fetches on mount and re-renders on relevant external triggers. The underlying posture seed refreshes on the military cron; live vessel positions refresh with the AIS relay.

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Tier & gating

Free on web; enhanced on desktop. Registered without premium in the full-variant FULL_PANELS entry (src/config/panels.ts:23), so the web build doesn’t gate it. The desktop build layers on premium: 'enhanced' in other variant contexts — this is why the panel appears free on web but behind an upgrade CTA on the desktop app.

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API reference