The Rumsfeld model of the new military focusing on agility and dealing with asymmetrical threats with minimum casualties, is woefully inadequate for a war with a rising superpower who’s military out mans, out guns and can now out perform our troops by eliminating much of our high tech advantage. China’s seemingly successful test of an Anti-Satellite Missile system means the Communist Government has an effective tool to circumvent our own Missle defense systems which rely in part on Satellites to track incoming I.C.B.M.s.

This could have dire implications for the U.S. Military, which has it’s hands full with Jihadist, Iranian proxy warfare and a growing threat in Latin America. China’s presumed reunification through force with Taiwan has thus far not materialized due in large part to America’s missile defense system making the threat of all out war from China less then credible. If the Chinese military thinkers believe that they can credibly threaten the Western Seaboard with nuclear annihilation, they may begin an aggressive military campaign in the Asian world that would inevitably draw the U.S. in when our allies, Japan and Taiwan, are threatened.