Training other countries’ armed forces is a go-to foreign policy tool for the United States and other states. A growing literature explores the effects of military training, but researchers lack detailed data on training activities. To assess the origins and consequences of military training, as well as changing patterns over time, this project provides a new, global dataset of US foreign military training. This article describes the scope of the data along with the variables collected, coding procedures, and spatial and temporal patterns. We demonstrate the added value of the data in their much greater coverage of training activities, showing differences from both existing datasets and aggregate foreign military aid data. Reanalyzing prior research findings linking US foreign military training to the risk of coups d’état in recipient states, we find that this effect is limited to a single US program representing a small fraction of overall US training activities. The data show comprehensively how the United States attempts to influence partner military forces in a wide variety of ways and suggest new avenues of research.

训练其他国家的武装部队是美国和其他国家的首选外交政策工具。越来越多的文献探讨了军事训练的影响，但研究人员缺乏训练活动的详细数据。为了评估军事训练的起源和后果，以及随时间变化的模式，该项目提供了美国外国军事训练的新的全球数据集。本文描述了数据的范围以及收集的变量、编码程序以及空间和时间模式。我们展示了数据在更大范围的训练活动中的附加价值，显示了与现有数据集和外国军事援助汇总数据的差异。重新分析先前将美国对外军事训练与受援国发生政变风险联系起来的研究结果，我们发现这种影响仅限于美国的单个计划，仅占美国总体训练活动的一小部分。这些数据全面展示了美国如何试图以多种方式影响伙伴军事力量，并提出了新的研究途径。