Abstract This report, scoped as of 3 April 2026, advances a high-rigor political-economy and network-governance framework for analyzing the contemporary military-industrial-financial complex in the United States and allied procurement ecosystems, with special attention to the structural coupling among defense appropriations, procurement pipelines, foreign military sales, capital-market exposure, regulatory institutions, and cross-border industrial participation by major … Leggi tutto The Military-Industrial-Financial Nexus: Defense Procurement, Alliance Rearmament, Capital Exposure and Italian Corporate Participation in the Contemporary U.S.-Led Security Economy