troopdata (version 1.0.2)

get_troopdata: Function to retrieve customized U.S. troop deployment data

Description

get_troopdata() generates a customized data frame containing country-year observations of U.S. military deployments overseas.

Usage

get_troopdata(
  host = NULL,
  branch = FALSE,
  startyear = 1950,
  endyear = 2024,
  quarters = FALSE,
  guard_reserve = FALSE,
  civilians = FALSE,
  reports = FALSE
)

Value

get_troopdata() returns a data frame containing country-year observations for U.S. troop deployments.

Arguments

host

The Correlates of War (COW) numeric country code, ISO3C code, or country name, for the host country or countries in the series. If region == TRUE the user can specify a COW region name and the function will try to match it to the region column in the data. The default is NA.

branch

Logical. Should the function return a single vector containing total troop values or multiple vectors containing total values and values for individual branches? Default is FALSE.

startyear

The first year for the series. The default is set to 1950.

endyear

The last year for the series. The default is the maximum year in the currently published data.

quarters

Logical. Should the function return quarterly data? Default is FALSE.

guard_reserve

Logical. Should the function return values for the National Guard and Reserve? Default is FALSE.

civilians

Logical. Should the function return values for civilian DoD personnel? Default is FALSE.

reports

Logical. Should the function return reports for the specified countries and years? Default is FALSE.

Author

Michael E. Flynn

References

Tim Kane. Global U.S. troop deployment, 1950-2003. Technical Report. Heritage Foundation, Washington, D.C.

Michael A. Allen, Michael E. Flynn, and Carla Martinez Machain. 2022. "Global U.S. military deployment data: 1950-2020." Conflict Management and Peace Science. 39(3): 351-370.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
library(tidyverse)
library(troopdata)

example <- get_troopdata(host = "United States",
                        branch = TRUE,
                        startyear = 1980,
                        endyear = 2015)

head(example)

}