Doctoral Defense Presentation: Key Insights and Contributions

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This work argues that lunar terrain is strategic capital, shaping advantage in emerging cislunar competition. It integrates geology, optimization, and strategy into a unified framework for site selection, showing how early control of resource-rich regions—especially near polar ice—creates lasting lock-in effects. Using advanced data modeling, MILP optimization, and a novel ΔZ metric, it quantifies logistical value and denial impacts. Results highlight scarcity, chokepoints, and first-mover...