Quantitative patterns in drone wars

@article{GarciaBernardo2014QuantitativePI,
  title={Quantitative patterns in drone wars},
  author={Javier Garcia-Bernardo and Peter Sheridan Dodds and Neil F. Johnson},
  journal={Physica A-statistical Mechanics and Its Applications},
  year={2014},
  volume={443},
  pages={380-384}
}
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