Are U.S. Military Interventions Contagious over Time? Intervention Timing and Its Implications for Force Planning
Current DoD force planning processes assume that U.S. military interventions are serially independent over time. This report challenges this assumption, arguing that interventions occur in temporally dependent clusters in which the likelihood of an intervention depends on interventions in the recent...
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| Format: | Electronic Book Chapter |
| Language: | English |
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RAND Corporation
2013
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| Summary: | Current DoD force planning processes assume that U.S. military interventions are serially independent over time. This report challenges this assumption, arguing that interventions occur in temporally dependent clusters in which the likelihood of an intervention depends on interventions in the recent past. Integrating the concept of temporal dependence into DoD planning processes could help planners develop more appropriate force estimates. |
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| ISBN: | j.ctt3fh19w 9780833079046 9780833079015 |
| Access: | Open Access |