Political Use of the United States Armed Forces, 1946-1976 / Stephen Kaplan, Barry Blechman.

Format:

Datafile

Contributor:

Kaplan, Stephen.

Blechman, Barry.

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Series:

ICPSR (Series) ; 7595.

ICPSR ; 7595

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World politics--1945-1989.

World politics.

World politics--1989-.

United States--Armed Forces.

United States.

Armed Forces.

United States--Military policy.

Military policy.

United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989.

International relations.

Genre:

Academic theses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

ICPSR edition.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1984.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

data file

Summary:

The data in this collection were generated in 1976 as part of a Brookings Institution project studying the use of the United States Armed Forces as a political instrument. By the study's definition, political use of the armed forces occurs when physical actions are taken by one or more components of the uniformed military services as part of a deliberate attempt by the national authorities to influence, or to be prepared to influence, specific behavior of individuals in another nation without engaging in a contest of violence. The study yielded 226 such cases between January 1, 1946, and December 31, 1976. The data can be grouped into seven categories: dates of the events, contextual characteristics of events, types and sizes of United States Armed Forces involved, movement and readiness of forces, activities of forces, non-United States actors involved, and United States public approval of the president within two months of the event.

Contents:

Part 1: Data File

Notes:

Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2004-10-30.

Start: 1946; and end: 1976.

Access Restriction:

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