economic warfare is going to be a permanent fixture going forward - no need to be kinetic if you can collapse their economy. Iran only became kinetic because the people were starting to revolt - decapitate the government 50 times and it makes revolution easier.
Economic warfare and psychological warfare. We've been, and continue to be in the thick of a world wide psychological war, perhaps a World War that is entirely psychological. With the prevalence in use of AI, particularly for psychological manipulation (it doesn't have to be very good to fool the average retards).
Economic warfare has been a permanent fixture for well over a century as has psychological warfare, but the tools available are becoming much more powerful. CBDC's, AI, internet censorship, etc. We're all under attack all the time.