Wednesday, 30 December 2015

Year-End Post-Mortem: Control

I had a number of questions about who would control various hotspots by the end of the year:

  • The Donetsk Airport is still under the control of the Donetsk Rebels.  I said there was a 70% chance of this.
  • Mariupol is still under the control of Ukraine (see my post Mariupol Control).  I said there was an 85% chance of this.
  • Sana'a is still controlled by the Houthis (see my post Sana'a Control).  I said there was a 75% chance of this.
  • Kobani is still controlled by the Kurds (see my post Kobani Control).  I said there was a 65% chance of this.
  • Damascus is still controlled by the Syrian government (see my post Damascus Control).  I said there was a 90% chance of this.
  • Debaltseve is still controlled by the Donetsk rebels (see my post Debaltseve Control).  I said there was a 77% chance of this.
  • Mosul is still controlled by the Islamic State (see my post Mosul Control).  I said there was a 40% chance of this.
  • Kunduz is now controlled by the Afghan government (see my post Kunduz Control).  I said there was a 60% chance of this.
It is notable that all of my end of year control questions seem to have resolved in favour of the organization that controlled the city when I created the question.  I may have been slightly under-confident in guessing that the status quo would continue.

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