Unaccountable Class Weakens Maritime Order

The rules‑based, trade‑centric 'maritime order' depends on domestic sectors that prize positive‑sum efficiency. As Western bureaucratized, credentialed 'unaccountable' classes grow, they propagate zero‑ or negative‑sum 'resilience' logics that sap efficiency at home and erode capacity to sustain the order abroad. This reframes grand strategy as contingent on internal class composition. — It links elite workforce structure to foreign‑policy performance, suggesting internal administrative expansion can strategically handicap the West.