This paper addresses the relationship between rebel training from external sponsors and civil war outcomes. While past research has examined how foreign support, broadly, shapes the dynamics of civil wars, little attention has been paid to how foreign training of rebel fighters affects civil wars. We theorize that rebels that receive training from formerly successful rebels are more likely to experience favorable conflict outcomes than those with no training or with training from sponsors inexperienced with fighting a civil war. These propositions are tested with a quantitative analysis of all intrastate conflicts from 1975 to 2010, providing support for our hypothesis.

本文讨论了来自外部赞助商的叛军训练与内战成果之间的关系。尽管过去的研究已经研究了外国支持在很大程度上如何影响内战的发展，但很少有人关注外国对反叛战斗人员的培训如何影响内战。我们认为，接受过成功叛乱者训练的叛乱者比那些没有受过训练或没有内战经验的赞助者训练的叛乱者更有可能经历有利的冲突结果。这些命题通过对1975年至2010年所有州内冲突的定量分析进行了检验，为我们的假设提供了支持。