Abstract
According to the Department of Defense, if supported by “a sophisticated command-and-control system,” e.g., accurate real-time target data, from China’s growing family of terrestrial and space-based sensors, ASBMs could hold U.S. carrier strike groups at risk in the Western Pacific. […] in institutional prominence is the Second Artillery Equipment Department in Beijing – with some involvement by the Second Artillery Equipment Research Institute as well, the latter of which may suggest that some degree of procurement, or at least active consideration thereof, is under way.” Such a prospect should make American planners seek lasting solutions.