You sure as hell dispelled Sun Tzu's art of war as wrong in your statement there. You learnt strategy from WoW god help us, please go play a strategy game if you wish to learn something about strategy from a game. Enough said WoW is designed to be balanced in real military situations the fastest one prepared and with the best speed wins. In DoW you can win a battle in 10 minutes because you can overpower them before they're ready. Just like real life.

I do believe somewhere in the game there was a reference as to why Ultimecia didn't go straight to Esthar, I will attempt to find this when I can. Enough said though Ultimecia is only really roughly as powerful as Adel was in her prime...Adel was beaten by a former Gabaldian Soldier who used a trick not a fight to win. Esthar has been ruled by sorceresses in the past and would never let one take control again. Gabaldia is a country where short memories are probably encouraged so that the enemies they're fighting now are the enemies they should be fighting not someone who helped them during the sorceress war. During the sorceress war they were severely outclassed and it looked like they would lose. Suddenly Adel disappears and Esthar too...they got a break I reckon and so would many others. Gabaldia would have been tempted to regain "former glory" by having the advantage of a sorceress having seen what Adel can do. I'll look for in game evidence to this effect though your own evidence is often none-existent in it's support of your theories.

The G.D.F. thing is getting ridiculous, look in the artwork of the game as you've clearly posted there is a G.D.F logo on the side of a piece of Gabaldian military equipment. It CANNOT be GabalDian Forces because enough said Gabal.Dian.Forces does not make the world Gabaldian. In the english language there is always a full stop between words when abbrieviating NEVER in the middle of one, heres some abbreviations: C.I.A, F.B.I, S.A.S (special air service) S.B.S (special boat service), R.B.S (royal bank of scotland), N.Y.P.D (new york police department) can you see where I am going here? Not a single one of those has a full stop splitting a word, there is a word beginning with D in that abbrieviation and it is not the second part of Gabaldia(n), The only logical choice to fill that is Defense, cold hard logic here...an army will not refer to itself as crap so Diabolical is out, Dude would be just stupid and well Distinct would be just as weird. Defense fits perfectly over any other D word I can think off.

No Square don't have to reply, perhaps if your theories weren't quite so "out there" they would send a reply of sorts as it stands they probably take a look and discard it. You are not the only fanboy out there who is just slightly obsessed with one of their games. They released an Ultimania guide for this game in their eyes thats it job done they can all go home. If what you seek is not in the ultimania guide then well, frankly as far as Square is concerned what you seek to know or think you know is wrong or doesn't exist.

I like talking about FFVIII too but you don't see me comming out with outside theories which are not grounded in the story, not supported by the game and have no possible linkage to the storyline in any way. Call me "narrow minded" but I'll tell you its a heavy dose of "realistic viewing" and I'll also say that atleast when I theorize something it's got good groundings in the game world or in human action/interaction/inaction.