U.S. overseas troop deployment data — troopdata_rebuild

troopdata returns a data frame containing information on US military deployments.

Usage

troopdata_rebuild_long

Format

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

ccode: A numeric vector of Correlates of War country codes.
iso3c: A character vector of ISO three character country codes.
countryname: A character vector of country names.
region: Correlates of War geographic region name.
year: The year of the observation.
month: The month of the observation.
quarter: The quarter of the observation.
source: The DMDC report source of the observation.
troops_ad: The total number of active duty US military personnel deployed to the host country.
army_ad: Total number of active duty Army personnel deployed to the host country.
navy_ad: Total number of active duty Navy personnel deployed to the host country.
air_force_ad: Total number of active duty Air Force personnel deployed to the host country.
space_force_ad: Total number of active duty Space Force personnel deployed to the host country.
marine_corps_ad: Total number of Marine Corps personnel deployed to the host country.
coast_guard_ad: Total number of Coast Guard personnel deployed to the host country.
total_selected_reserve: Total number of reserve US military personnel deployed to the host country.
army_reserve: Total number of reserve Army personnel deployed to the host country.
navy_reserve: Total number of reserve Navy personnel deployed to the host country.
air_force_reserve: Total number of reserve Air Force personnel deployed to the host country.
marine_corps_reserve: Total number of reserve Marine Corps personnel deployed to the host country.
coast_guard_reserve: Total number of reserve Coast Guard personnel deployed to the host country.
army_national_guard: Total number of Army National Guard personnel deployed to the host country.
air_national_guard: Total number of Air National Guard personnel deployed to the host country.
army_civilian: Total number of Army civilian personnel deployed to the host country.
navy_civilian: Total number of Navy civilian personnel deployed to the host country.
air_force_civilian: Total number of Air Force civilian personnel deployed to the host country.
marine_corps_civilian: Total number of Marine Corps civilian personnel deployed to the host country.
dod_civilian: Total number of Department of Defense civilian personnel deployed to the host country.
total_civilian: Total number of civilian personnel deployed to the host country.

Source

https://www.heritage.org/defense/report/global-us-troop-deployment-1950-2005

doi:10.1177/07388942211030885

Value

Returns the full data frame containing observations of US military deployments to overseas locations (countries and territories) from 1950 through 2024.