The Past, Present, and Future of U.S. Ground Interventions: Identifying Trends, Characteristics, and Signposts

Kavanagh, Jennifer; Frederick, Bryan; Povlock, Matthew; Pettyjohn, Stacie L.; O’Mahony, Angela; Watts, Stephen; Chandler, Nathan; Meyers, John Speed; Han, Eugeniu

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“…RAND's US Ground Intervention Dataset (RUGID), from 1898 to 2015 is one of the most recent efforts to document US military interventions and outcomes (Kavanagh et al 2017). Yet RUGID only includes larger US ground interventions, which decreases and biases the sample.…”

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Introducing the Military Intervention Project: A New Dataset on US Military Interventions, 1776–2019

Kushi

Toft

2022

Journal of Conflict Resolution

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While scholars have made many claims about US military interventions, they have not come to a consensus on main trends and consequences. This article introduces a new, comprehensive dataset of all US military interventions since the country’s founding, alongside over 200 variables that allow scholars to evaluate theoretical propositions on drivers and outcomes of intervention. It compares the new Military Intervention Project (MIP) dataset to the current leading dataset, the Militarized Interstate Disputes (MID). In sum, MIP doubles the universe of cases, integrates a range of military intervention definitions and sources, expands the timeline of analysis, and offers more transparency of sourcing through historically-documented case narratives of every US military intervention included in the dataset. According to MIP, the US has undertaken almost 400 military interventions since 1776, with half of these operations undertaken between 1950 and 2019. Over 25% of them have occurred in the post-Cold War period.

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“…Yet RUGID only includes larger US ground interventions, which decreases and biases the sample. RUGID includes 145 cases from 1898 until 2016 in its second iteration (Kavanagh et al 2017;Kavanagh, Frederick, Stark, Chandler, Smith, Povlock, Davis, and Geiss 2019).…”

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Introducing the Military Intervention Project: A New Dataset on US Military Interventions, 1776–2019

Kushi

Toft

2022

Journal of Conflict Resolution

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“…Our definition and thresholds for inclusion for military interventions in this report are chosen to be consistent with previous RAND work on U.S. military interventions (seeKavanagh, Frederick, Povlock, et al, 2017) and with the other reports on adversary interventions in this series (seeCharap et al, 2021;Heath et al, 2021;. We recognize that, in the case of Iran, these criteria exclude certain types of activity, and we address those limitations in Chapter One of this report.10 In some rare instances, force levels during a multiyear intervention might temporarily have fallen below this threshold for an isolated year (and then again risen above it); as a general rule of thumb, we would nonetheless code it as a continuous mission.…”

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Iran's Military Interventions: Patterns, Drivers, and Signposts

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Military Intervention as an International Normative Custom and Human Security

Batool

2022

Regulating Human Rights, Social Security, and Socio-Economic Structures in a Global Perspective

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Power equation, strife for supremacy, and the use of force (or non-use, thereof) reside at the very heart of international relations – the interplay between them adjusting with new realities. As the Cold War ended, new international normative customs were introduced in global relations – with international security relations witnessing two prototypal shifts. First, policymakers began embracing military intervention as a legitimate foreign policy tool on the plea of humanitarianism. Secondly, the human security approach was introduced to study matters related to security. Contrary to the traditional security approach (spun around state security), this new concept gave primacy to the protection of humans. This study will analyse how military interventions impact human security. The research will be carried out within the parameters of international security (conventional and non-conventional) and human security. In doing so, it will establish how interventions—led in the name of humanitarianism—unwittingly create international human security crises.

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The Past, Present, and Future of U.S. Ground Interventions: Identifying Trends, Characteristics, and Signposts

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Introducing the Military Intervention Project: A New Dataset on US Military Interventions, 1776–2019

Introducing the Military Intervention Project: A New Dataset on US Military Interventions, 1776–2019

Iran's Military Interventions: Patterns, Drivers, and Signposts

Military Intervention as an International Normative Custom and Human Security

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