Entirely littoral. Now, building the Copenhagen shipyard would help prevent NOD from making as much use from the damages, but I get the feeling that is not what you are asking.
In terms of both protecting your investments and securing the region the Red Zone is a better choice.
Red-1 and Red-7 I agree on. But there's actually another priority target in the Red Zone No. ??? which is between the Himalayan Blue Zone and the Chinese/Korean Blue Zone. It's a priority target because we've actually managed to build a rail line between the two, securely linking up the Himalayan Blue Zone with the outside world for the first time in a fair while. The fact that we've also got a glacier mining operation running along the sides of that rail line just increases the priority of ensuring that line stays safe.
It does. On the backend, things mostly actually end up going into one big pot, rather than having specific things in specific places. I do keep track of locations to some extent, but mostly don't actually bother. Unless there is a NOD operation specifically in one place, things are generally pretty equal across the board, and any strength in one area contributes to strength elsewhere.
I kinda assumed that kind of research was being carried out at military black sites in the background. Though that was probably just stuff like 'what is this and how can we kill it better'. I'm guessing these new institutes would be more in depth.
Still divided up.
These are trying to hack the secrets out of them. To take NOD for example, while you probably won't get the big three (those being cyborgs, tactical lasers, and stealth) out of the research, you might get a better understanding of Tiberium (increasing output/processing capability), cracking their Ion Disruption Fields, improved anti stealth measures, that sort of thing. And you might even get parts of the big three on top of that.
You have some hovercraft that you use on the river, and defensive lines in front of it. Actually patrolling the river is not a particularly huge issue, and just being able to reliably threaten it from the Brotherhood would be.
After all, just being able to reliably sink a tenth of the cargo transports every quarter rapidly adds up in both resources lost, diverted military forces from other critical zones, and loss of the cargo transports themselves which need to be replaced.
Zone suits were being produced by hand so output was fairly low thanks to lack of cap goods when we did the factories, which is why we have the refit action.
Yes, they likely did have a massive surplus. Unfortunately, they operate in the Red Zones which means they're constantly suffering major attrition of suits to tiberium. And then there was a three year long global war. This likely ate all of the replacement suits, and all of what could be produced during the war. Then after the war they make the decision to basically obsolete their tiberium-resistant combat suits which were being used for the infantry that weren't Zone Troopers, as they'd be making all ZOCOM infantry forces use some type of Zone Armour. This massively increased the number of suits they need, such that the six Zone Armour factories we can build? That's just to satisfy ZOCOM's desire for Zone Armour.
With how aggressively Tiberium harvesting is expanding, I'd say the investment for specifically ZOCOM is justified and worth it to continue supporting the pace of expansion.
I still want to build the damn Myomers factory before the next Zone Armour factory, just to get that small improvement to all Zone Armours and all Mechs happening. That said, I think the next factory we need to build is one of the shipyards for the navy. The one after that is more debatable. But we absolutely need to appease the Navy as they're rather annoyed at us, the Air Force also needs at least one more project done for them (I'd recommend the Orca Improvement, as the casualty rates for Orcas is called out previously as a serious problem) and it's probably a good idea to toss something at the Steel Talons beyond the Myomer factory.
