Does warfare matter? Severity, duration, and outcomes of civil wars

L Balcells, SN Kalyvas - Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Does it matter whether a civil war is fought as a conventional, irregular, or symmetric
nonconventional conflict? Put differently, do “technologies of rebellion” impact a war's …

Military technology and the duration of Civil Conflict

JD Caverley, TS Sechser - International Studies Quarterly, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Why do some civil conflicts end quickly, while others last for years? We argue that an
incumbent government's military forces play a crucial role in conflict duration. Specifically …

[图书][B] War on the Ballot: How the Election Cycle Shapes Presidential Decision-Making in War

A Payne - 2023 - degruyter.com
INAUGUST 1972, PresidentRichardNixonmetwithhisnationals… advisorintheOvalOfficetochartapathforwardi…
Vietnam. Hewasclear-eyedaboutthesituation. Havingdoubleddownon hispredecessor' …

Institutionalizing instability: The constitutional roots of insecurity in Nigeria's Fourth Republic

H Matfess - Stability: International Journal of Security …, 2016 - account.stabilityjournal.org
Nigeria's return to democracy has been a tumultuous era; the Fourth Republic has been
characterized by insurgencies and violence throughout the country. Though seemingly …

Introducing Native American Conflict History (NACH) Data

BR Urlacher - Journal of Peace Research, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
The colonization of the Northern Hemisphere between 1500 and 1900 produced nearly 150
separate conflicts between colonial powers and Native American communities. These …

[引用][C] Narrative and the making of US national security

RR Krebs - 2015 - Cambridge University Press

Predicting the duration of the Syrian insurgency

U Pilster, T Böhmelt - Research & Politics, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
While there were several relatively short uprisings in Northern Africa and the Middle East
during the Arab Spring, the dispute between the rebels and government forces in Syria has …

Evaluating counterinsurgency classification schemes

ML King, AS Hering, AM Newman - Military Operations Research, 2014 - JSTOR
ABSTRACT The United States Military requires models that estimate the number of forces
needed or measure success during a counterinsurgency. These models depend on data …

[图书][B] Counterinsurgency as Ideology-The Evolution of Expert Knowledge Production in US Asymmetric Warfare (1898-2011): The Cases of the Philippines, Vietnam …

T Ruettershoff - 2016 - search.proquest.com
This PhD thesis examines the status of 'expert knowledge'in the history of US asymmetric, or
'counterinsurgency'(COIN), warfare during the last century. The historical rise of expert …

[图书][B] Optimizing counterinsurgency operations

ML King III - 2014 - search.proquest.com
Abstract The United States military requires models that estimate the number of forces
needed or that measure success during a counterinsurgency. These types of models …