You might be interested in the New War concept advanced by Mary Kaldor ' s book New and Old Wars Organized Violence in a Global Era . It doesn ' t really talk about cyber , but it does talk about how war has changed since the 1819 th centuries . It places a lot of emphasis on economics and identity politics . While there is continuation from Clausewitzian ideas of war , the dynamics have changed causing the same old political goals leading to nonconventional outcomes . There is quite a bit of criticism of this theory , so it ' s important to keep in mind that Kaldor ' s book was targeted towards policy makers . Rather than developing a whole new theory , she wanted to get policy makers thinking about postCold War conflicts in a more nuanced fashion .