The wars in Ukraine and the Middle East have exposed the importance of digital infrastructure in modern warfare. Data centers and cloud regions are now critical components of military power and economic prosperity, making them attractive targets for long-range strike systems, drones, and cyber capabilities.
To build digital strategic depth, governments must adopt a new way of thinking about critical technology, one that prioritizes dispersion, elasticity, and optionality. This approach involves distributing cloud architectures, creating hybrid and edge capabilities, and ensuring workload portability across trusted environments.
The traditional concept of strategic depth, which relied on geography, is no longer sufficient. The reach of precision strike and cyber operations has compressed the battlespace, making it essential for governments to create digital strategic depth through the architecture of data. This can be achieved by leveraging commercial hyperscale cloud and its strategic benefits, which are not exclusive to any one company but exist within the United States and its partners.
