Effective in battle: conceptualizing soldiers’ combat effectivenessFootnote^*

* The Author would like to thank Margarita Konaev, Jeffrey Meiser, participants in the International Studies Association Annual Conference, and several anonymous reviewers for their helpful feedback on this paper. Any remaining faults are the authors’ alone.

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