There are a lot of things that America does to other countries that would be taken as acts of war if they were done to America. Is this the foreshadowing of a

There are a lot of things that America does to other countries that would be taken as acts of war if they were done to America. Is this the foreshadowing of a second Cold War, albeit with a different super power and in completely new battlefields? The only problem, as mentioned elsewhere in the thread is that unlike conventional warfare, spoofing the origin of these "weapons" is relatively easy. Does anyone know of whether people have thought of things like Mutually Assured Destruction in the context of e-commerce and the internet?