But some military officers and analysts argue that Mr. Menem's cuts have gone too deep and left the armed forces unprepared and ill-equipped to respond to potential foreign threats.

Amanullah's efforts to recover power by leading a small, ill-equipped force toward Kabul failed.

Although Salla was recaptured, the advance of his ill-equipped forces stalled soon.

Fortunately for this ill-equipped force, there was no aerial opposition and some more modern fighter aircraft were received from 1942 onwards.

The advancing Greeks, still holding superiority in numbers and modern equipment at this point, had hoped for an early battle in which they were confident of breaking up ill-equipped Turkish forces.

Lack thereof can lead to a clunky, slow, and ill-equipped force with too much or too little supply.

The streets of Basra and the compounds of Helmand disproved that idea, as the death toll among forces ill-equipped and poorly trained for counter insurgency became apparent.

The attack on Sunday underscored the vulnerability of the small, ill-equipped and demoralized force, he said.

The survivors said they both had acted irresponsibly by sending a poorly prepared, ill-equipped, and inadequately armed military force to the Russian Front.

Despite the country's numerically small and ill-equipped armed forces, Greece made a decisive contribution to the Allied efforts in World War II.