Today, Chile's is the most modern and best-equipped army in Latin America, says Armen Kouyoumdjian, an adviser to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
Although Congo has indicated that its troops have the capacity to deal with the remnants of Mr. Kony's Lord's Resistance Army, diplomats said its ill-equipped army is no match for the battle-hardened LRA fighters, who have spread their terror campaign in recent weeks, displacing thousands of locals in Congo.
Its military force is small but far better motivated, trained and equipped than the Lebanese army.
By the best estimates, 80% of India's army is equipped with Russian hardware.
Haiti itself has only 5, 000 policemen, most poorly equipped, and no army.
Newly designed Australian army vests will be equipped with paper-thin, flexible and lightweight solar-cells with very high power-to-weight ratios.
No wonder the Army was uniquely ill-equipped to deal with a problem like Maj.
Kushamond was a tiny, ill-equipped patrol base for a few dozen Afghan Army soldiers.
In the past the Afghan army was a ramshackle affair, but these soldiers are better equipped and more organised than before.
This dry run has proved so encouraging that Army officials say they expect the first wave of smartphone-equipped soldiers could be shipped overseas later this year.
The Mumbai police - like most police in India - remain in a time warp: they are equipped with World War II vintage rifles and carbines handed down by the army.
In other parts of Mexico, where local police offices are short-staffed and poorly equipped to face threats from cartel members, the federal government has used the army and federal police to battle drug traffickers.
General Galtieri sent thousands of troops to bolster his initial force, but the army was mostly made up of poorly-trained, poorly-equipped conscripts, used to spreading fear among demonstrating students, but no match for British professionals.
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