Synthesis
The sovereignty trap: America's first strikes in Nigeria and the collapse of Sahel security
The South China Sea cable vulnerability
Why the US defense industry can't absorb a 50% budget increase
China's South China Sea militarization and the Taiwan timeline
Sudan's engineered invisibility: A meta-of strategic abandonment
The parasitic lock: How defense spending enriches contractors while readiness decays
The Philippines cannot defend what it cannot reach
How US intervention in Nigeria creates the dependency it claims to prevent
UAE's Red Sea withdrawal: Strategic repositioning toward gulf defense
Why more defense spending won't fix America's production crisis
