A COD battle status just like the halo one (which actually just says Battle status), you could link the two universes together of you wish, parallel or linear lines of time are accepted.
Russian interrogation of a captured resistance fighter:
?: Who is the leader of your resistance cell?!
RF: I don't know, some English guy
?: How long has this man lead your cell?
RF: Not long, but if you think you can pit the resistance cells against each other, you got another thing coming
*2nd Russian hits the Resistance member*
?: it seems you do not know how we operate here in Russia's Europe. Now tell me more about this Englishman, how much do you know about him?
RF: He goes by Akula, he got in good with the cell leaders, made a lot of high ranking friends. He's also a skilled fighter, we don't know anything about his past but we suspected he was ex-military maybe ex-special forces.
?: why do you suspect he was ex-military, ex-special forces?
RF: based on his combat skills, always wears tags and his tattoos, we never got a good look at his military tattoos but one said 1-4-1, no squad name, battalion name, other than that, but it definitely looked military.
?: And the tags? Did you get to read the tags?
RF: there was nothing on them, I don't know why but he just wears blank military-style tags.
?:Any other information about this guy that you haven't told us yet?
RF: He selects his own personal squad to fight with him by his side. If your going to try to kill him you'll need to get past the ones that aren't in his elite squad and then deal with his elite squad, impossible of you ask me. That's all I have to say.
?: Good that's all the use we have for you
RF: Wha-
*2nd Russian executes the Resistance member point blank with an MP-443 "Grach"*
?: We need to find someone who is willing to share his location then we'll send someone undercover get them to earn his trust and get into his elite squad, from there our agent will know what to do.
*end of interrogation tape*
A: so they're coming for us then, we'll have to play along for a bit then I guess.......