modeling organized human conflict (otherwise known as war)

Hello Polymaths:

This short TED video is about statistical modelling of a couple of the artifacts of an organized conflict. I have been working on an analysis of this type with other data (i.e. stock prices and weather).

Sean Gourley on the mathematics of war
http://www.ted.com/talks/sean_gourley_on_the_mathematics_of_war.html

It turns out that Mathematica has APIs to enable such analyses.

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