In a series of articles, I discuss a book by Steven Pinker with the title: “The better Angels of Our Nature“. In this book, the author argues that violence in […]
international relations
Our thinking about war and strategy must change
Von Clausewitz is the author of the work “On War” (“Vom Kriege“), and until today dominates thinking about war and strategy-formulation. However, Von Clausewitz’s theory and strategic imperatives are based […]
KA/war-cycles and the fundamental differences between non-systemic and systemic KA/wars
KA stands for “kinetic activity” of the System, and is equivalent with war. Analysis of war data shows that during the transient period (1480-1945), the System produced four accelerating KA/war-cycles, […]
Attack Tolerance of Networks
Networks differ in their attack and error tolerance. Scale-free networks have a typical ‘error and attack tolerance’ (1), which is related to the distribution of nodes with a certain degree […]
On the Thermodynamics of War and Social Evolution
Global4cast has published a new study with the title “On the Thermodynamics of war and Social Evolution“, which provides the scientific explanation for patterns in war dynamics that were discussed […]