A US Space Force officer argued Bitcoin mining is military power projection. The Pentagon quietly suppressed the book. In February 2023, Major Jason Lowery — an active US Space Force officer on a National Defense Fellowship at MIT — published a thesis called \*Softwar\*. His argument: Bitcoin's Proof-of-Work is not a monetary mechanism. It is a form of power projection. Whoever commands the most mining infrastructure commands the most defensible territory in the digital domain. He recommended the DoD treat Bitcoin mining as a national security priority — no differently than naval power or satellite positioning. Late 2024: the Department of Defense placed the book under retroactive security review. Commercial distribution was halted. Lowery was instructed to stop discussing Bitcoin publicly. No official statement. No denial. No explanation of any kind. The thesis is still accessible in MIT's repository. Physical copies reached $300 on the secondary market.…