Tim Kane assembled the U.S. troop deployments dataset and has published a handful of research papers and articles about it. The most recent data was updated with significant contributions from Kien Deshpande of Stanford University.

Kane is a professor at the University of Austin, a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and president & co-founder of the American Lyceum (501c3). He is also the author of numerous books, including The Immigrant Superpower (Oxford University Press, 2022), Balance: The Economics of Great Powers (Simon and Schuster, 2013) with Glenn Hubbard, Total Volunteer Force (Hoover Press, 2017), and Bleeding Talent (Palgrave, 2012).

Kane earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, San Diego. His work has been featured in the New York Times (see this early op-ed from 2004), Wall Street Journal, and Commentary Magazine. Kane has also appeared often on television and radio programs including CNN, NPR, PBS, CNBC, and FOX News.

Kane graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1990. He served multiple tours overseas as an intelligence officer. See his Wikipedia page here.

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