In the olden times, war was a straightforward kind of thing — two armies met and fought on a designated battlefield and the winner was usually the last one standing. Then we went ahead and ruined all of that chivalry with the invention of tomahawk missiles and Apache helicopters. Since then warfare has become a never-ending escalation on who can cause the most outright destruction in the least amount of time. A task we appear to be scarily good at and in no rush to slow down on.
Worse still, the battlefield itself has now also evolved. We now exist in the age of cyber-warfare on a global scale, with the modern battleground including the near-infinite expanse of the internet. A place where pasty-faced footsoldiers slouch double-time at their desks, moving silently through a digital expanse of ones and zeroes — faceless troops that don keyboards and launch full-scale assaults with lines of virtual code.
