In the post-Cold War era, US strategic planners have been caught between two camps in defining the primary threat to US national security, one concerned with functional threats like the proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), terrorism, drug trafficking, illegal immigrants, etc., and the other with traditional geo-political challenges, like the rise of new power centers and the shift in balance of power. The Quadrennial Defense Review Report released on September 30, 2001 pointed to "a military competitor with a formidable resource base" as the major challenge to US in East Asia, suggesting that the defense planners within the Bush administration viewed China as the primary security threat and intended to reorganize US military assets around this central theme.
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