The US cyberstrikes Iran’s missile systems after Tehran shoots down a US drone. This is not the end of war but a change of its forms. Just as the Coral Sea was the first naval engagement beyond visual range of the opposing fleets this is the first battle in which only automata die.
So far at least.
But the effects of virtual war are quite real, the economic cost stupendous. Just as our life savings are merely a database entry but vital what is essential in the modern world is invisible to the eye.
The one possibility the left was unprepared for was if Trump did not strike militarily at Iran. Bomb, damn you, bomb. What? No bombing?
The great thing about old style warfare is everybody knew where they stood. You were a civilian or you wore a uniform. Wars were declared. Enemies surrendered. The clever theorist believed they could gain advantages by cheating on all those fronts. Boy were they wrong.