Hmm yeah that tracks with what I'm seeing and hearing. Also here is the recently leaked game scenario about the draft, and here is their timeline which shows space war and total loss of comms as one of their gaming waypoints. Its quite a series of events that leads up to the "Give us 1 million troops in 18 months" endpoint according to the timeline shown here...
https://archive.org/details/leaked-list-of-who-will-be-drafted-first-has-just-been-released/2026%20Response%20Planning%20Exercise%20Scenario%20Timeline/mode/1up