> the swift small wars

Sounds like window cleaner - wipe on, wipe off.

> As history moves on the circles of the helix of development are becoming smaller.

This point, although self evident to many, has rarely been discussed by historians. The idea regularly coupled with this notion is that history is self-similar through scales, so that one need only apply the right formula and one can find analogous occurrences in exponential increments. This idea is of course pretty readily applied to the physical world.
One exponent of this theory, whose name escapes me, saw many similarities between Egyptian pharaohic history and that of the Third Reich.