Strategies and Tactics in Armed Conflict (STAC)

The Strategies and Tactics in Armed Conflict (STAC) data set provides scholars with a rich new source of information on the strategies and tactics employed by belligerents in 197 internal armed conflicts that occurred between 1945 and 2013. STAC facilitates investigations of how regimes and their foreign supporters have responded to insurgent threats and the effects of actors’ force employment choices on a wide variety of intra- and postconflict outcomes. In addition to seventeen novel variables that measure the strategies and tactics employed by governments and intervening states, the STAC dataset contains independently coded measures of many variables that overlap with existing data sets—a feature that facilitates the replication of existing studies and robustness checks on the results of new studies.