Absolute Resolve and Blueprints

Operation Absolute Resolve

Dave Hartland | AV Geekery | 3rd January 2026

Aviation expert details the mission to capture Nicolás Maduro. “The word integration does not explain the sheer complexity of such a mission, an extraction so precise it involved more than 150 aircraft launching across the western hemisphere in close coordination, all coming together in time and place to get an interdiction force into Caracas while maintaining the element of tactical surprise” (2,000 words)

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The Blueprint For American Cities

Michelle Stacey | Smithsonian | 28th November 2025

In 1902, a train wreck in New York’s Park Avenue killed dozens of commuters, causing public outrage. A grand overhaul was planned by the railroad’s chief engineer, William Wilgus. The tracks would go underground with two levels, one for commuter trains and one for long-distance. To fund this plan, Wilgus proposed the concept of air rights — monetise whatever is built overhead as far up the sky as it goes (4,600 words)