Reading my voluminous notes, I realize my aspiration has been to develop a theory of warfare covering many different instances or cases. This is what Einstein did in the development of his theories (see below), and in fact is what science is (according to Hazen and Trefil—see below).

Science develops laws that “apply to an immense assortment of situations;” fundamental laws that seem “simple, almost simplistic.”

My research seeks to discover or identify or unearth the underlying dynamics defining many different wars.

Historians write about each war as if it is a unique occurrence. My theory is that an underlying structure defines what war is, how it occurs, how it has to occur. I use the word “template.”

Wars are instances articulating a template. THE EVENTS ARE EPIPHENOMEMAL The things we SEE (battles, etc.) reflect and embody the template that defines and explains the reality. There is an underlying form (see Plato) structuring what happens; what we see.  

Who knew? Who could have known?

But how can one demonstrate or empirically verify that wars are generated based on a common template?
 

SEE EINSTEIN'S DESK BELOW

 “I soon learned to scent out what was able to lead to fundamentals--and to turn aside from everything else, from the multitude of things that clutter up the mind.”
                                                                                                         Albert Einstein

“A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the more extended its area of applicability.”
                                                                                                         Albert Einstein

“Science is organized around a limited number of concepts (or “laws”), that account for everything we see in the world around us.” (Hazen and Trefil, 2009).

“Newton developed compact laws that apply to an immense assortment of situations. His three Laws of Motion—like all fundamental laws that govern science—seem simple, almost simplistic. The deepest insights of the human mind often have this characteristic.” (Hazen and Trefil, 2009).

August 18, 1945