Weekly F-16 Deployment Overviews for Anti-ISIS Coalition, 2014-2018

The Netherlands Ministry of Defence publishes weekly summaries of its armed forces' operations. This dataset compiles weekly overviews of Dutch F-16 contributions to the anti-ISIS coalition for the years 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2018. No Dutch F-16s participated in the mission during 2017.

Use Cases

• Analyze operational tempo and intensity based on weekly publication frequency.
• Track the timeline of Dutch F-16 involvement in the anti-ISIS coalition.
• Study the most important developments in military operations as described in the weekly overviews.

Strengths

• Covers four distinct years of military operations (2014, 2015, 2016, 2018).
• Data is published weekly, suggesting a regular update cadence.
• Explicitly notes the non-participation year of 2017, clarifying the temporal scope.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties

Collection Method

Weekly 'Defense Operations Week overview' publications on Defensie.nl.

Time Range

2014, 2015, 2016, 2018