Which is probably part of why at least 8 US-trained officers have overthrown their governments in Africa alone, without US backing. The relevant Department of Defense command does not track data on the point, though it seems a rather important outcome measure from my perspective. But, of course, tracking outcomes rather than inputs is always dangerous: you’re liable to find that your training does nothing.
My instant reaction is to wonder about the denominator: the US loves to provide training because the marginal cost is low when you’re doing so much training already, and it’s harder to criticize than providing fighter jets etc. Maybe this is what you would expect from all the training aid the US provides in its various packages. (It sounds like they don’t and can’t know either, but you could at least try to guess from # of countries given aid / # of coups.)
Apparently, ethicists aren’t very good at it. They steal more books than other philosophers!
My instant reaction is to wonder about the denominator: the US loves to provide training because the marginal cost is low when you’re doing so much training already, and it’s harder to criticize than providing fighter jets etc. Maybe this is what you would expect from all the training aid the US provides in its various packages. (It sounds like they don’t and can’t know either, but you could at least try to guess from # of countries given aid / # of coups.)
Fulltext links for that & the others.