The most recent update (v7.0) to COW’s National Military Capabilities is now available here.
This is the final update from longtime NMC hosts Michael Greig and Andrew Enterline, to whom COW and the discipline are grateful for years of work that has ensured reliable access to the CINC scores so ubiquitous in the study of war and peace. Michael and Andrew will each become Data Host Emeritus (about which more soon).
Beginning with NMC v8, the new Data Host will be John J. Chin, an assistant teaching professor of political science in the Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy and Technology at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the lead author of an Historical Dictionary of Modern Coups D’état (2022), which was named one of the “Best Historical Materials” published in 2022–23 by the American Library Association. He also maintains the Colpus dataset of coup types and characteristics.