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Every Daily Intelligence Report ends with a Watch List — specific situations we say to monitor next. Each one is scored against the news that actually followed, re-graded three days later with a fuller picture, and shown here — hits and misses alike. This is the thing a "just the facts, no opinion" newsletter can't show you: a falsifiable forecast record.
Calibration scorecard
How the grading works — and why you can trust the number.
Each Watch List call gets one of six verdicts: HIT, PARTIAL, MISS, COUNTER (evidence went the other way), PENDING (not yet resolved), or NULL-COVERAGE (the news corpus didn't cover the topic — un-scoreable, so it's excluded, never counted as a win or a loss). The headline number is a credit rate = (HIT + ½·PARTIAL) ÷ decided calls. We grade with a model + the live news corpus, then re-grade at +72 hours. We deliberately use partial credit and exclude coverage gaps so the number is honest, not flattering.Recent calls — including the ones we got wrong
Graded from the 2026-06-11 Intelligence Report · re-scored through 2026-06-12.
Kharg Island Seizure Threat and Hormuz Closure
(HIGH)The corpus confirms: Trump declared he would seize Kharg Island then walked it back; the U.S. Navy is actively escorting 20+ tankers per night through Hormuz; the Hormuz death toll reached 14; and a peace deal signing is being reported as imminent for the G7 sidelines — all directional movements matching the 'watch_for' indicators of naval activity and Hormuz-related developments.
U.S.-Iran MOU Negotiations vs. Military Escalation
(HIGH)The corpus is saturated with coverage of the 'Islamabad MOU': Iran's foreign minister said the agreement is 'closer than ever before'; Trump claimed the war is 'over' and a deal could be signed this weekend in Europe; the NYT ran a live blog headlined 'Conflicting Accounts Emerge of Possible Peace Deal'; and further U.S. strikes on tankers carrying Indian crews confirm simultaneous military escalation — exactly the dual-track tension the watch called.
ECB Rate Hike and European Financial Stress
(MODERATE)The ECB Governing Council released a formal decisions notice on June 12 (ecb.europa.eu), and the ECB structural financial indicators report was also published the same day — confirming ECB policy action. An AEI analysis explicitly warns of a 'Perfect French Debt Storm' pointing to sovereign debt stress in the eurozone's second-largest economy, matching the 'Southern Europe debt sustainability' watch trigger. No Italian/Greek spread widening data was found, preventing a HIGH confidence rating.
UK Defense Leadership Vacuum Post-Healey Resignation
(HIGH)The corpus confirms Healey's resignation is real and generating significant political fallout, with Elbridge Colby publicly calling on the UK to increase military strength and UK-Canada defense bank talks underway — but no story in the corpus yet names a confirmed replacement appointment by PM Starmer, leaving the specific 'who replaces Healey' trigger unresolved.
Xi Jinping-North Korea Visit Fallout
(MODERATE)One directly relevant story from Daily NK analyzes Xi's Pyongyang visit and its denuclearization implications, and a separate NK News story covers Jeju's 'Vitamin C diplomacy' revival as a dormant engagement model — both confirm post-visit diplomatic ripples. However, there are no corpus stories on DPRK arms transfers, military activity alerts, or U.S./South Korean intelligence assessments of the visit's strategic outcomes.