Originally Posted by airfoilmod
Do I miss your point
Somewhat
- you seem to be the only person posting from the point of an extremely aft COG
I can't argue with what you say - all perfectly correct as far as I understand, but also perfectly irrelevant to a legally loaded civil aircraft of 'conventional' disposition.. where there's going to be a nose down couple, opposed by the tail feathers.
As to the original question, why a fwd COG increases induced drag, I think it's been answered many times over. So long as you start with the reasonable assumption that the COG is ahead of the neutral point.