Essential reading on China’s ASAT plans

Continuing with its thread of providing a more realistic assessment of China’s military capabilities, Wired’s Danger Room blog has published a three-part article by MIT researcher Geoffrey Forden that attempts to provide a realistic picture of the role that China’s ASAT capabilities could play in a Sino-US war.

Forden outlines the difficulties China would face in trying to cripple the US Military’s satellite capabilities in the event of a war over Taiwan and suggests that while China might be able to cause some damage to US capabilities, it will not be able to launch a “Pearl Harbor” that blinds and cripples the US Military.

Read the whole article here, here, and here.

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