The Global Chokepoints Series · Complete Library
The narrow places the world breathes through.
The twelve days that closed Hormuz. The silicon shield and the hundred miles of water the global economy runs past. The frozen island at the top of the world. The race for the high ground between the Earth and the Moon, the machines that will guard it, the ice that could fuel it, the metal drifting between the planets, the five still points that command the Earth and the Moon, and the fight to govern a second world on Mars. And the mechanism by which a chokepoint quietly becomes a tollgate. Ten briefings, 152 tracks, just over sixteen hours.
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Listen to sample — The Preface (Book One)
The opening of Strait on Fire, Book One of the ten included here.
What’s Included
Global Chokepoints — the roadmap (five of thirteen out)
Book One — Strait on Fire
The twelve days that closed the world's energy artery — the decapitation strike, the mining of Hormuz, the ghost fleet and the Larak toll booth, Asia in crisis, oil at $166, and the scenarios for how it ends. Written from inside the storm.
20 chapters · 2 hrs 12 min
Book Two — The Taiwan Tripwire
110 miles of water, 90% of the world's advanced semiconductors, and a window that is closing. The Davidson timeline, the squeeze that never becomes a seizure, the cracks in the silicon shield, what Beijing learned from the Iran war — and the five scenarios for how this ends.
16 chapters · 2 hrs 16 min
Book Three — The Greenland Chokepoint
Rare earths, Arctic shipping lanes, and a U.S. Space Force base on the world's largest island. The geography that explains everything, Russia's Arctic strategy, China's polar ambition, the NATO fault line, the Greenlandic perspective — and three scenarios for the frozen chokepoint at the top of the world.
8 chapters · 1 hr 23 min
Book Four · Space Edition Book One — The Cislunar Race
The next chokepoint is 239,000 miles away. What Artemis II actually was, the road ahead, China's program, the billionaires, Space Force and the weaponization of cislunar space, Mars as the real destination — and whether we are reliving the 1960s.
8 chapters · 1 hr 21 min
Book Eleven (released early) — The Tehran Toll Booth
A fifth of the world's oil moves through twenty-one miles of water, and Iran sits astride it. Forty years of a loaded gun, the Houthi template, the mechanism of the toll itself, who actually pays, the legal battlefield, China's calculated silence — and the diplomatic endgame for a chokepoint that has become a tollgate.
10 chapters · 1 hr 53 min
The Space Edition — continues from The Cislunar Race
Space Edition · Book Two — Orbital Dominion
Artificial intelligence, the Golden Dome, and the machines that will guard the chokepoints. Machine-speed warfare, hunter-killers, the twenty-four-hour war, the algorithm arbiters, the data empires — and the watchmen we built.
8 chapters · 1 hr 30 min
Space Edition · Book Three — Propellant
Lunar water, rocket fuel, and the race to build the gas station in space. The ice in the Moon's permanently shadowed craters, the honest problem of whether it can be taken, the American and Chinese plans to reach it, the law of who owns it — and the first fuel made off the Earth.
8 chapters · 1 hr 22 min
Space Edition · Book Four — Ore
Asteroid mining, the metal of the future, and the race to own the raw material of space. The metal drifting between the planets, the honest problem of reaching it, how you would actually mine an asteroid, the prospectors and the long march to the Belt, the law that will govern it — and the first haul.
8 chapters · 1 hr 26 min
Space Edition · Book Five — The Parking Lot
The Lagrange points, the high ground of cislunar space, and the five positions that will command the Earth and the Moon. The geometry of power, the dark ocean between the worlds, the first climbers, the far-side key, the ultimate high ground, the law of the still points, the watchers and the watched — and the five thrones.
8 chapters · 1 hr 28 min
Space Edition · Book Six — The Red Chokepoint
Mars, the first city, and the fight to govern a second world. The honest distance, the company that declared a planet free, the state that plays the long game, the law that cannot reach, the first Martians, the Earth below, the blank page, and the end of the watch over Mars.
8 chapters · 1 hr 28 min
Still in production: roadmap Books Five through Ten, Twelve and Thirteen. See the series roadmap for what ships next.
The watch is open. Vigilate.
— Elias Maren