ABSTRACT
Offshore manufacturing is a component of globalization. Offshore manufacturing trends threaten the national defense of the United States of America. The Department of Defense specifically identifies "focused logistics" as a key part of the defense industrial base. Connections to innovation, production, and people make logistics the facet of the economic pyramid. Research kept returning to a challenge against Sir Walter Petty's stages of development theory. The equal importance concept led to rearranging the modified model into an economic triangle. People and services were interchangeable during evaluations after the first economic triangle. The second iteration of the economic triangle depicts wealth as an indirect linkage among the sectors. With the market at the center of the third triangle, an examination of the several elements and their relationships took place. Minimizing foreign energy dependence is necessary for national security. The future of domestic manufacturing depends on innovation.
