GIA is in active development. New features, improvements and hotfixes, newest first. Installed copies update from inside GIA.
NewKeyboard shortcuts: R for the relationship network, 1 to 9 for the screens, F1 to F10 for layer presets, ? for the full list, and any key you like in Settings → Keyboard shortcuts.
NewEach military unit opens onto the units under it, down to battalions, batteries and companies, with their home bases.
NewA gold star marks every country's capital, and you can keep places and addresses in your favourites.
ImprovedLOCATE turns the globe to the place you search for; street addresses find the best-known match first.
ImprovedThe AI analyst answers sooner and shows only its answer.
NewA Military tab in every country brief: the order of battle, service rifles and artillery, and military units. Security & Conflict keeps the wars, the violence and military spending.
NewThe relationship network in each country's Alliances and blocs card.
NewTerror Orgs grouped by U.S. combatant command; a group active in several commands' areas is listed under each.
ImprovedTimestamps use the clock's colours: UTC in blue, your local time in yellow.
ImprovedClicking the map from far out opens the whole country; from zoom 4 in, a click opens the state or province.
ImprovedThe coordinates card shows only the latitude and longitude, and the zoom readout can be dragged and resized.
NewA switch for adversary military bases, ringed in red.
NewGIA Pro starts with a free week, and is $15 a month or $144 a year: one price for everyone.
NewGIA Team: everything in Pro for five people on one subscription, with seats you can swap any time.
NewYour personal data is encrypted on your computer (AES-256, key kept in your computer's own key store), with an optional passphrase lock and private sessions that keep nothing once GIA closes.
NewTeam rooms are encrypted end to end.
NewGia's Lessons tab teaches the HUMINT course module by module, with questions to check what you learned.
NewEvery country's Security tab lists the wars and standoffs it takes part in, with its role and whether each is active now.
NewPoint at a service rifle or artillery system for its photo and key figures (range, rate of fire, operating system, calibre); click it for its Wikipedia article.
NewWeekly and monthly outlooks and a 7-day forecast in the Climate tab, with a °C / °F switch.
NewOne-click presets for the Iran, Israel and Ukraine conflicts and for each combatant command, showing only the bases involved.
New50 more official and research feeds (100 sources in all), posts from X in the Wire, and a social-media filter.
NewThe ORBAT browser and an order of battle in each country brief, free for every account.
HotfixPalestine's risk score now counts the violence in Gaza and the West Bank, which the source dataset files under Israel.
HotfixStrikes in the Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz now count as activity in the Iran war.
HotfixGia no longer shows her internal reasoning; you see only her answer.
HotfixLong titles no longer run past the edge of a panel, and moved panels stay on screen when the window gets smaller.
HotfixThe carriers indicator moved off the news ticker, so headlines are never covered.
ImprovedThe Daily Brief is now issued at 08:00 US Eastern, the hour the President's Daily Brief is briefed.
NewNATO military symbols (APP-6) for units on the map, carriers and the ORBAT trees, with a U.S./NATO or neutral-observer point of view and the U.S. Army's symbols manual (FM 1-02.2) to read.
ImprovedNuclear power plant symbols are smaller, so they no longer crowd the map.
NewThe HUMINT course: human-source collection from the public U.S. Army manual FM 2-22.3 in three parts, with hands-on exercises, a printable worksheet and targeting-analysis modules from JP 3-60.
NewLeader profiles and photos in Terror Orgs, each with its source and current status.
NewThe Live News tab, U.S. traffic and wildfire cameras, a 3D view, place cards and air quality.
New50 official data sources, each with its own health status.
NewPop-out windows for every top tab.
NewCountry facts from Wikipedia, favourite provinces, and a bottom toolbar that folds away.
ImprovedEvery island on the map can be clicked; a smoother globe; an exact zoom readout.
HotfixThe Climate tab no longer opens to a black screen.
ImprovedThe app is now called GIA, Global Intelligence Analysis.
NewBriefs for 4,593 states and provinces: click a state, then click again for the whole country.
NewThe U.S. embassies layer, and current populations for 142,895 cities and towns.
NewFree accounts with just a username and password, GIA Pro with the Daily Brief and Gia, and a light mode.
HotfixGIA now finds the local AI model (Ollama) reliably, and F11 toggles full screen.
