Yes, a space based weapon will appear in 2020s, China could be the first to deploy
The PLA is taking a multi-faceted approach to find solutions and this article examines the PLA’s three-pronged approach during 2011:
- professional military education reform to educate and train joint commanders and staff;
- construction of an integrated command, control, computers, communications, intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance (C4ISR) system;
- experimentation and testing concepts and communications systems in joint exercises.