Planning War with a Nuclear China: US Military Strategy and Mainland Strikes - Paperbackby John Speed Meyers (Author) *This book is in the Rapid Communications in Conflict and Security (RCCS) Series (General Editor: Thomas G. Mahnken; Founding Editor: Geoffrey R. H. Burn) Beginning in 2010, a public debate emerged about the role of so called mainland strikes in any US military strategy toward China. Mainland strikes refer to wartime attacks on military targets located on the Chinese mainland with non nuclear ("conventional") weapons.