U.S. overseas troop deployment data

Description

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

Usage

troopdata

Format

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

countryname

A character vector of country names.

ccode

A numeric vector of Correlates of War country codes.

iso3c

A character vector of ISO three character country codes.

region

Correlates of War geographic region name.

year

The year of the observation.

troops

The total number of US military personnel deployed to the host country.

army

Total number of Army personnel deployed to the host country.

navy

Total number of Navy personnel deployed to the host country.

air_force

Total number of Air Force personnel deployed to the host country.

marine_corps

Total number of Marine Corps personnel deployed to the host country.

Value

Returns the full data frame containing country-year observations of US military deployments to overseas locations (countries and territories) from 1950 through 2020.

Source

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