Looking to the Skies: Operation Unified Protector and the Strategy of Aerial Intervention

E Petersson - International Interactions, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
What are the different ways in which an intervener can use airpower to enhance a rebel
organization's ability to capture government-held territory? Multiple studies have analyzed …

Airpower and territorial control: Unpacking the NATO intervention in Libya

E Petersson - Conflict Management and Peace Science, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
How does how intervener airpower affect civil war parties' ability to take and hold territory? I
argue that airpower can have both short-and long-term effects on an actor's ability to take …

One if by land, and two if by sea: cross-domain contests and the escalation of international crises

JA Gannon - International Studies Quarterly, 2022 - academic.oup.com
New domains of military conflict, such as space and cyber, arguably increase opportunities
for conflict across, as well as within, domains. Cross-domain conflict is thus seen by many as …

Planes, trains, and armored mobiles: introducing a Dataset of the Global Distribution of Military Capabilities

JA Gannon - International studies quarterly, 2023 - academic.oup.com
This article introduces a dataset on disaggregated national military capabilities from 1970 to
2014, drawn from the International Institute for Strategic Studies Military Balance. While …

Flying to fail: Costly signals and air power in crisis bargaining

A Post - Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Theories of crisis bargaining suggest that military mobilizations act as costly signals of
resolve, increasing the credibility of coercive threats. In this article, I argue that air …

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 …

Strongmen cry too: The effect of aerial bombing on voting for the incumbent in competitive autocracies

M Popovic - Journal of Peace Research, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
How does exposure to aerial bombing influence voting for the target country's leadership?
Do voters tend to punish incumbents for policy failure? These questions are relevant for …

Planes, trains, and armored mobiles: Introducing a dataset of the global distribution of military capabilities (rdmc)

A Gannon - Available at SSRN 3930390, 2021 - papers.ssrn.com
This article introduces the Distribution of Military Capabilities (rDMC) dataset. It begins by
explaining the value of collecting data on disaggregated national military capabilities, its …

Air power, NGOs, and collateral killings

SH Allen, SR Bell, C Martinez Machain - Foreign Policy Analysis, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Air strikes have become an essential tool in major powers' military arsenals. Yet, despite the
precise technology that air power represents, its use can also result in unintended killings. In …

A Wiki-based dataset of military operations with novel strategic technologies (MONSTr)

JA Gannon, K Chávez - International Interactions, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Research on strategies and force employment in modern warfare is prolific, but siloed. While
some examine boots on the ground, others focus on aerial bombing or unpiloted platforms …