In the hurricane of political news over the past several weeks, it probably isn't surprising that one of the biggest things to happen this year didn’t get as much coverage as it might otherwise.

The CrowdStrike debacle is the story that everyone in Washington, and back home, should be talking about. But they aren’t. Too many people are dismissing it as simply an accident or a mistake. It was described as a “major inconvenience.” It was certainly all of these things. And, per the company responsible, it was apparently not a cyberattack or linked in any way to nefarious behavior.

So, it was an accident, and not, say, an act of war. But let’s be perfectly clear: We just got a really good look at what the next war could be like.

Eighty years ago, our grandparents and great-grandparents dropped bombs almost every single day on Nazi Germany. Later, we firebombed Tokyo and dropped two atomic weapons. We did all of that, yes, to win World War II. But more specifically, we did it to eliminate the Axis Powers’ ability to make the things needed to fight the war — tanks, airplanes, guns, fuel and food — and to undermine their citizenry’s desire to keep fighting.

Today, one doesn’t need bombers or aircraft carriers to do either of those things.........

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