With the shift of the US strategic focus toward China as America’s main competitor, both the Department of Defense and academic experts have been examining what a war with China would look like. Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, all these analyses overlook one of the most important aspects of such a war: how it would affect the homeland and the US population. The 9/11 attacks demonstrated that the notion that the homeland, protected as it is by two vast oceans, is untouchable is no longer true. If nineteen hijackers with about $500,000 could cause such unimaginable physical and psychological damage, consider what China could do with its vast resources, years of preparation, and deep reach into US society.