Johnson, Neil; Spagat, Michael; Restrepo, Jorge A.; … - UNIVERSIDAD JAVERIANA - BOGOTÁ - 2005
The 9/11 attacks created an urgent need to understand contemporary wars and their relationship to older conventional and terrorist wars, both of which exhibit remarkable regularities. The frequency-intensity distribution of fatalities in "old wars", 1816-1980, is a power-law with exponent 1.80....