Today's military systems run on compute. SCSP's Andreas Theodoropoulos breaks down why the Department of War should establish a Strategic Compute Reserve: during the first 38 days of Operation Epic Fury, U.S. forces used the Maven Smart System to identify, prioritize, and strike targets — with classified workloads surging 89% month-over-month and daily token volume spiking 4,425%, peaking at 20 billion tokens a day. The Pentagon recognizes the growing compute gap: its FY2027 budget request seeks nearly $30 billion to move from scattered GPU clusters to integrated AI infrastructure. But a war with China would demand far more compute than currently planned for. Andreas proposes a solution modeled on Cold War precedent: just as the Civil Air Reserve Fleet let the Pentagon surge commercial aircraft in a crisis, a Strategic Compute Reserve would pre-negotiate access to America's commercial data centers — secured and certified in peacetime, ready to convert to classified work in war. Read...