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It is fought with differentiated militaries and clear frontlines and causes at least 500 deaths over its duration.", "For the two wars that had campaigns within it that were a civil war and an interstate war, we coded them as interstate wars.", "We only count a civil war as new when the war overall started that year, not if the war became a civil war.", "We count a war as new in a region even if the war started earlier or at the same time in another region. The sum across all regions can therefore be higher than the total number of new wars."], "origins": [{"id": 6686, "title": "Project Mars", "description": "Project Mars. This dataset records new data on 229 unique belligerents in 252 conventional wars fought between 1800 and 2011. Project Mars introduces new data about these belligerents, including their level of prewar military inequality, and new measures of battlefield performance, including desertion, defection, and fratricidal violence. The latest version is Version 1.1. (2022-02-08).\n\nYou can find more details on the dataset in its notes at https://web.archive.org/web/20230717140532/https://dataverse.harvard.edu/file.xhtml?fileId=5857673&version=2.0", "producer": "Jason Lyall", "citationFull": "Lyall, Jason. Divided Armies: Inequality and Battlefield Performance in Modern War (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020)", "attribution": "Jason Lyall, Project Mars (2020)", "urlMain": "https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/DUO7IE", "urlDownload": "https://dataverse.harvard.edu/api/access/datafile/5857675", "dateAccessed": "2023-09-21", "datePublished": "2020-10-26", "license": {"url": "https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/DUO7IE", "name": "Public Domain"}}]}