Using the Small and Singer “Correlates of War” Project data, Rob

http://netwar.wordpress.com/2007/08/22/power-laws-of-war/

 

Using the Small and Singer “Correlates of War” Project data, Roberts and Turcotte found that the casualty rate per 10,000 of the combined populations of the warring nations continued to follow a powerlaw with a scaling parameter of 2.5.
(D. Roberts and D. Turcotte “Fractality and Self-Organized Criticality of Wars” 1998)

This means that wars are scale invariant – they’re fractal.