To help you understand what wars are really about I will need to talk you through some military campaigns in different locations across the world in various time zones. The cultural setting in each has differences to do with language, style of dress, technology, art, religion, social conditions etc but some underlying reasons for war are constant, which show up as pathological/ neurological patterns of behaviour by land owning war lords that are rarely investigated and analysed by psychologists and historians. But first, what do I mean by war lords exactly?