Multilateral Military Exercises (MME) data, long format

mme_long returns a data frame containing exercise-country-year observations of multilateral military exercises. Built from the MME version 7 data (https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/KHFODX) and reshaped so each row represents a single participating country in a single year of a single exercise. This is the data object underlying get_exercises().

Usage

mme_long

Format

A data frame with exercise-country-year observations including the following variables:

MMEID: Unique exercise identifier from the MME source data.
Ex_Name: The name of the individual exercise (e.g., "Cobra Gold 23").
Series_Name: The name of the broader exercise series the exercise belongs to (e.g., "Cobra Gold").
gwcode: Numeric Gleditsch and Ward country code for the participating country. Looked up from country via the countrycode package; NA for non-country participants such as "NATO" or regional groupings.
country: Character vector of participating country names as recorded in the MME source data.
year: The year of the observation. Exercises spanning multiple years are expanded so that each year between s.year and e.year produces its own row.
Location: The geographic location where the exercise was held (free-text from the source data).
lat: Latitude of the exercise location.
lon: Longitude of the exercise location.
StartDate: Original start-date string from the source data.
s.year: Numeric year the exercise began.
s.month: Numeric month the exercise began.
s.day: Numeric day the exercise began (may be "xx" when unknown).
EndDate: Original end-date string from the source data.
e.year: Numeric year the exercise ended.
e.month: Numeric month the exercise ended.
e.day: Numeric day the exercise ended (may be "xx" when unknown).
CPX: Binary indicator: command post exercise.
Air: Binary indicator: air domain.
Land: Binary indicator: land domain.
Sea: Binary indicator: sea domain.
Amphibious: Binary indicator: amphibious domain.
Cyber: Binary indicator: cyber domain.
Warfighting: Binary indicator: warfighting focus.
Peacekeeping: Binary indicator: peacekeeping focus.
Humanitarian: Binary indicator: humanitarian focus.
FocusDescription: Free-text description of the exercise's focus from the source data.
AdditionalParticipantInfo: Free-text notes about participants from the source data.
participant_count: Total number of participating countries in the exercise. The same value is repeated across all rows that share an MMEID. Used by the min_participants and max_participants arguments of get_exercises().

Source

D'Orazio, Vito; Galambos, Kevin, 2021, "Multinational Military Exercises, 1980-2010", doi:10.7910/DVN/KHFODX , Harvard Dataverse, V1.

Value

Returns the full data frame of exercise-country-year observations of multilateral military exercises from 1980 forward.