Strategies and Tactics in Armed Conflict: How Governments and Foreign Interveners Respond to Insurgent Threats

Sullivan, Patricia L.; Karreth, Johannes

doi:10.1177/0022002719828103

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“…Potential sponsors are unlikely to see rebel organizations as a good investment unless they are able to pose a credible threat to the government (Gent, 2008; Salehyan, Gleditsch & Cunningham, 2011). We use a categorical measure of rebel troop strength from the Strategies and Tactics in Armed Conflict (STAC) dataset (Sullivan & Karreth, 2019). The rebeltrpcat variable has four categories and varies from 1, for groups with fewer than 3,000 troops, to 4, for armed groups with more than 30,000 troops.…”

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Arms for education? External support and rebel social services

Huang

Sullivan

2020

Journal of Peace Research

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How does foreign support for rebel groups affect rebel governance of civilians during armed conflict? Existing studies primarily examine the local and domestic politics of rebel rule, leaving the effects of foreign intervention on rebel governance underexplored. Focusing on rebel provision of social services, this study considers two competing arguments. The first suggests that foreign sponsorship reduces rebels’ need to rely on local civilians for resources and hence decreases rebels’ incentives to provide services. The second anticipates that by augmenting rebels’ resources and military capabilities, foreign support increases their capacity to provide welfare services. These competing logics suggest that different types of foreign support have divergent effects on rebel social service provision. The article tests this theory using cross-sectional time-series data on external support for rebel groups and rebel governance for the post-1945 period. It finds that rebel groups that receive external funding, weapons or training are significantly more likely to provide education and health services to civilians. In contrast, direct military intervention to assist insurgent forces has no effect on rebel service provision. This article is among the first to systematically study the impact of external support and third-party intervention on rebel social service provision during civil war and holds implications for civilian welfare in contested territories.

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Arms for education? External support and rebel social services

Huang

Sullivan

2020

Journal of Peace Research

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“…And does it do so with fewer agency problems than other forms of security cooperation, such as financing and arms transfers ( Sullivan, Tessman & Li, 2011 )? As researchers disaggregate forms of external support in civil war ( Sawyer, Cunningham & Reed, 2017 ; Sullivan & Karreth, 2019 ), how does knowledge- and human-centric training compare with material security assistance (e.g. McNerny et al, 2014 )?…”

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Tracking the rise of United States foreign military training: IMTAD-USA, a new dataset and research agenda

McLauchlin

Seymour

Martel

2022

Journal of Peace Research

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Training other countries’ armed forces is a go-to foreign policy tool for the United States and other states. A growing literature explores the effects of military training, but researchers lack detailed data on training activities. To assess the origins and consequences of military training, as well as changing patterns over time, this project provides a new, global dataset of US foreign military training. This article describes the scope of the data along with the variables collected, coding procedures, and spatial and temporal patterns. We demonstrate the added value of the data in their much greater coverage of training activities, showing differences from both existing datasets and aggregate foreign military aid data. Reanalyzing prior research findings linking US foreign military training to the risk of coups d’état in recipient states, we find that this effect is limited to a single US program representing a small fraction of overall US training activities. The data show comprehensively how the United States attempts to influence partner military forces in a wide variety of ways and suggest new avenues of research.

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“…A mass of work on a couplet of tactics and strategies already exists, ranging from the military (Sullivan & Karreth, 2019), business and management (Mackay & Zundel, 2016), education (Katz & Kim, 2017;Mahdi, 2015), to labour and work (Baxter-Reid, 2021;Datta et al, 2007). Although these couplet words are used in different contexts, they depict similar meanings.…”

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Employment Tactics and Strategies of Technical-Vocational Education Students for Career and Professional Development in the Labour Market of Vietnam

Kieu,

Kirya,

Liu

2023

JTET

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Many policies and strategies have been implemented to improve both the quality and quantity of Vietnam's technical and vocational education (TVE) system, and the results indicated innovative reform of the TVE system in both ways in Vietnam. Many aspects of TVE in Vietnam have been explored by a series of reports of the National Institute for Vocational Education and Training (NIVET); however, there exists a shortage of studies attempting to focus on the process of TVE graduates’ employment experience in the Vietnamese labour market. This study attempts to explore the employment of TVE graduates from technical colleges in Vietnam, with a focus on their employment tactics. To base this study on a qualitative approach, the primary data sources were obtained through semi-structure interviews and self-diary on employment tactics and strategies of TVE graduates in the labour market within two years. The obtained data were subjected to thematic analysis. Based on this, results revealed difficulty in obtaining desirable and high-paying jobs even though it was not difficult to obtain jobs to earn a living. Also, low satisfaction and resilience due to poor working conditions were revealed. Three key strategies: maintaining low pay jobs to earn a living, updating their skills to get better jobs, and changing to suitable jobs were figured out by TVE graduates. These strategies gradually assisted TVE graduates to obtain sustainable goals of career promotion and professional development.

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Strategies and Tactics in Armed Conflict: How Governments and Foreign Interveners Respond to Insurgent Threats

Cited by 7 publications

References 74 publications

Arms for education? External support and rebel social services

Arms for education? External support and rebel social services

Tracking the rise of United States foreign military training: IMTAD-USA, a new dataset and research agenda

Employment Tactics and Strategies of Technical-Vocational Education Students for Career and Professional Development in the Labour Market of Vietnam

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