The high toll has been partly blamed on drunkenness and the use of poorly equipped beaches.
For its part, the Malian military is poorly equipped to take the lead in the war.
They then return home, many times to even more poorly equipped hospitals and clinics in Cuba.
The causes were familiar: untrained, with white officers who were the castoffs of other units, poorly equipped.
Developing economies like Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia are even more poorly equipped to deal with a falling yen.
Other than a small, poorly equipped government hospital, there was virtually no health care for a population of 600, 000 people.
Honduran police have complained about being underpaid and poorly equipped to fight the violent street gangs blamed for much of the violence.
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Haiti itself has only 5, 000 policemen, most poorly equipped, and no army.
Three "poorly equipped" men were found on board but refused any help.
The takins were poorly equipped to make the most of their release, swaggering through town, lazily searching for food and generally troubling the populace.
"Presumably they're poorly equipped to hunt other animals, including their own species, so it's an evolutionary question as to why cannibalism still exists among non-carnivorous animals, " he said.
This is an online job market which farms out tasks that humans are good at, but for which software is poorly equipped, like labelling images and transcribing speech.
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.
As a novice biker, it took me time to adjust to the reality of such statistics and it was only after a couple of poorly equipped 25-mile rides that I realized it would be difficult to cut corners on cycling gear.
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Reports suggest they were doing most of the fighting later on Monday after the poorly-equipped armed forces withdrew.
American soldiers had a devilish time coping with improvised explosive devices and other relatively simple tactics employed by a poorly-equipped and under-resourced adversary.
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In 1995, a little-known officer backed by mercenaries led by French soldier of fortune Bob Denard took power in the Comoros after poorly-equipped government troops were defeated.
However, this appears to have been contradicted by reports of sometimes poorly-equipped volunteers scrabbling through the rubble and the apparent starting of a fire by people trying to cut their way through the building.
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.
Poorly maintained and ill-equipped schools in South Carolina's "corridor of shame" were an issue during the Democratic primary as evidence that education reform had to be an imperative for the next president.
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