Gathering Clouds: Building Digital Strategic Depth in the Compute Age

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Military planners are increasingly recognizing that digital infrastructure such as data centers and cloud regions are critical to national security and economic prosperity. With emerging threats from long-range strike systems, drones, and cyber attacks, the resilience and protection of these digital assets represent a new form of strategic depth beyond physical geography.

The wars in Ukraine and the Middle East have exposed a strategic reality that military planners are only beginning to confront: In a data-centric age, digital infrastructure has become part of the battlespace. Data centers and cloud regions are now the digital backbone of military power and economic prosperity. As such, they present attractive targets for rapidly proliferating long-range strike systems, drones, and cyber capabilities. As the protective value of physical distance erodes, strategic depth — once conceived in geographical terms — must now be measured in the resilience of data and compute.Alex Rough detailed the physical vulnerability of data The post Gathering Clouds: Building Digital Strategic Depth in the Compute Age appeared first on War on the Rocks.