basedata {troopdata}

Vine's U.S. basing data

Description

basedata returns a data frame containing David Vine's US basing data.

Usage

basedata

Format

A data frame with country-base 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.

basename

Name of the facility.

lat

The facility's latitude.

lon

The facility's longitude.

base

Binary indicator identifying the facility as a major base or not.

lilypad

A binary indicator identifying the facility as a lilypad or not. Vine codes lilypads as less than 200 personnel or "other site" designation in Pentagon reports.

fundedsite

A binary variable indicating whether or not the facility is a host-state base funded by the US.

Value

Returns the full data frame containing country observations of US military bases from the Cold War period through 2018.

Source

https://aura.american.edu/articles/online_resource/Lists_of_U_S_Military_Bases_Abroad_1776-2020/23856486