{
  "name": "Warconomy explore directory",
  "asOf": "2026-06-05",
  "note": "A human-friendly directory grouped by intent. The machine-readable route catalog is at /routes. No new data is added here.",
  "page": "https://warconomy.com/explore",
  "machineCatalog": "https://warconomy.com/routes",
  "groups": [
    {
      "group": "Start here",
      "blurb": "New to Warconomy? Begin with these.",
      "entries": [
        {
          "label": "How to use Warconomy",
          "href": "/how-to-use",
          "blurb": "A start-here guide for readers, researchers, journalists, crawlers, and maintainers."
        },
        {
          "label": "Questions Warconomy answers",
          "href": "/questions",
          "blurb": "Plain-English answers mapped to the pages that cover them."
        },
        {
          "label": "Topics",
          "href": "/topics",
          "blurb": "Every canonical economic-impact page, searchable and filterable."
        },
        {
          "label": "Ask a question",
          "href": "/economic-impact",
          "blurb": "A question hub that routes common questions to the best page."
        },
        {
          "label": "What's new",
          "href": "/updates",
          "blurb": "Recent site and product improvements and the latest dataset releases."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "group": "Conflicts",
      "blurb": "How wars reshape economies.",
      "entries": [
        {
          "label": "Russia–Ukraine economic impact",
          "href": "/conflicts/russia-ukraine/economic-impact",
          "blurb": "Reconstruction need, food and energy effects, and fiscal channels."
        },
        {
          "label": "Conflicts dashboard",
          "href": "/conflicts/dashboard",
          "blurb": "A cross-conflict overview of the tracked indicators."
        },
        {
          "label": "Conflict economics (topic guide)",
          "href": "/topics/conflict-economics",
          "blurb": "Plain-English explainer with links to the conflict pages."
        },
        {
          "label": "Reconstruction",
          "href": "/reconstruction",
          "blurb": "Reconstruction-need estimates and their sources."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "group": "Shipping chokepoints",
      "blurb": "Why narrow sea passages matter for trade and energy.",
      "entries": [
        {
          "label": "Strait of Hormuz",
          "href": "/chokepoints/strait-of-hormuz/economic-impact",
          "blurb": "The Gulf's oil/LNG passage, with a schematic explainer (not a live ship tracker)."
        },
        {
          "label": "Red Sea shipping",
          "href": "/chokepoints/red-sea-shipping/economic-impact",
          "blurb": "Suez diversions and the longer route around Africa."
        },
        {
          "label": "Chokepoints dashboard",
          "href": "/chokepoints/dashboard",
          "blurb": "Cross-chokepoint overview."
        },
        {
          "label": "Shipping chokepoints (topic guide)",
          "href": "/topics/shipping-chokepoints",
          "blurb": "Plain-English explainer linking the chokepoint pages."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "group": "Sanctions & energy",
      "blurb": "Sanctions and the energy trade they target.",
      "entries": [
        {
          "label": "Russia energy trade & price caps",
          "href": "/sanctions/russia-energy-trade/economic-impact",
          "blurb": "Price-cap thresholds and energy-revenue indicators."
        },
        {
          "label": "Shadow fleet & shipping insurance",
          "href": "/sanctions/shadow-fleet-shipping-insurance/economic-impact",
          "blurb": "Listed-vessel counts and insurance restrictions."
        },
        {
          "label": "Frozen assets & Ukraine financing",
          "href": "/sanctions/frozen-russian-assets-ukraine-financing/economic-impact",
          "blurb": "Immobilized assets and financing indicators."
        },
        {
          "label": "Energy security (topic guide)",
          "href": "/topics/energy-security",
          "blurb": "How conflict, chokepoints, and sanctions affect energy."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "group": "Defense spending",
      "blurb": "Global and national military expenditure.",
      "entries": [
        {
          "label": "Defense spending hub",
          "href": "/defense",
          "blurb": "SIPRI totals and the NATO 2%-of-GDP count."
        },
        {
          "label": "Defense comparison",
          "href": "/defense/comparison",
          "blurb": "Top spenders compared and the world-total trend."
        },
        {
          "label": "Defense rankings",
          "href": "/defense/rankings",
          "blurb": "Top spenders by the latest SIPRI estimate."
        },
        {
          "label": "Defense spending (topic guide)",
          "href": "/topics/defense-spending",
          "blurb": "Plain-English explainer with the defense pages."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "group": "Commodities & food",
      "blurb": "Food and energy prices tracked alongside conflict.",
      "entries": [
        {
          "label": "Food prices (FAO)",
          "href": "/commodities/food-prices/economic-impact",
          "blurb": "The FAO Food Price Index, with its basis stated."
        },
        {
          "label": "Oil benchmarks",
          "href": "/commodities/oil-benchmarks/economic-impact",
          "blurb": "Brent and related benchmarks, source-reported."
        },
        {
          "label": "Commodities dashboard",
          "href": "/commodities/dashboard",
          "blurb": "The food and energy series together."
        },
        {
          "label": "Food price history",
          "href": "/commodities/history",
          "blurb": "The FAO Food Price Index over time (since 1990), with reference markers around conflict periods."
        },
        {
          "label": "Food & commodities (topic guide)",
          "href": "/topics/food-and-commodities",
          "blurb": "Plain-English explainer linking the commodity pages."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "group": "Data & sources",
      "blurb": "Download the data and trace every figure.",
      "entries": [
        {
          "label": "Dataset export",
          "href": "/datasets/conflict-economic-impact",
          "blurb": "Static JSON + CSV/JSONL + citation graph; no runtime API."
        },
        {
          "label": "Sources registry",
          "href": "/sources",
          "blurb": "Every cited source with its publisher and access date."
        },
        {
          "label": "Data coverage",
          "href": "/data-coverage",
          "blurb": "Which data is live vs sample, and freshness."
        },
        {
          "label": "Developer guide",
          "href": "/developers",
          "blurb": "How to fetch and use the static endpoints."
        },
        {
          "label": "Static data endpoints",
          "href": "/api",
          "blurb": "The machine-readable catalog (no keys, no rate limits)."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "group": "Methodology & trust",
      "blurb": "How the data is sourced, reviewed, and labeled.",
      "entries": [
        {
          "label": "Methodology",
          "href": "/methodology",
          "blurb": "How Warconomy sources, reviews, and labels every figure."
        },
        {
          "label": "How to cite",
          "href": "/citations",
          "blurb": "Citation formats and stable identifiers."
        },
        {
          "label": "Caveats",
          "href": "/caveats",
          "blurb": "The standing caveats on the data."
        },
        {
          "label": "Source hierarchy",
          "href": "/methodology/source-hierarchy",
          "blurb": "Which sources rank above which, and why."
        },
        {
          "label": "Indexing readiness",
          "href": "/methodology/indexing",
          "blurb": "How the site is prepared for search/AI indexing."
        },
        {
          "label": "Maritime data evaluation",
          "href": "/methodology/maritime-data",
          "blurb": "Why there's no live ship tracking, and what a future delayed layer would require."
        },
        {
          "label": "Live-data architecture",
          "href": "/methodology/live-data",
          "blurb": "Why Warconomy is static, and what a future live/delayed data layer would require."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "group": "Operator & maintenance",
      "blurb": "What needs manual upkeep (public-safe transparency).",
      "entries": [
        {
          "label": "Operator workbench",
          "href": "/operator",
          "blurb": "Every data task that needs a human, with sources and next actions."
        },
        {
          "label": "Source packets",
          "href": "/operator/source-packets",
          "blurb": "Copy-paste templates for handing a source value back."
        },
        {
          "label": "Data needs",
          "href": "/data-needs",
          "blurb": "The source-gated backlog."
        },
        {
          "label": "Promotion log",
          "href": "/methodology/promotion-log",
          "blurb": "The audit trail of promoted and blocked values."
        },
        {
          "label": "Machine route catalog",
          "href": "/routes",
          "blurb": "Every route and endpoint, for crawlers and developers."
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}