ill-disciplined

• “Okay he was rubbish with Turkey, but he has got to have the best record for getting ill-disciplined and under-skilled teams to over achieve.”

  The Guardian: Fabio Capello resigns as England manager – as it happened | Gregg Roughley

• “Nevertheless, the army in the Civil War evolved from a stumbling, inefficient, and ill-disciplined volunteer force into a progressive, sophisticated, efficient war-making machine.”

  Simon & Schuster: Between War and Peace

• “Whimsical and full of long digressions on obscure Hegelian philosophers, it reads like the scribblings of a very clever but ill-disciplined graduate student.”

  Simon & Schuster: Zero-Sum Future

• “It was a mixture of regulars half-trained and ill-disciplined, and colonials who did not know what to expect, supported by a train of wagons too light to carry their loads, pulled by horses too small to haul them.”

  Simon & Schuster: George Washington’s First War

• “Miéville describes the book, a riotous mixture of London lore, messianic cults and pop-cultural in-jokes, as "an attempt to channel a sort of hopefully enjoyable ill-disciplined exuberance that I felt I had been moving away from".”

  The Guardian: A life in writing: China Miéville

• “In the early 1990's, massive uprisings erupted against Indian rule, which was enforced by 500,000 troops and ill-disciplined paramilitary police.”

  The Huffington Post: Eric Margolis: Almost Forgotten: The World's Most Dangerous Conflict

• “It also needs to be remembered that vastly more of these deaths occurred from disease and famine than from violence – and although having ill-disciplined armies rampaging about greaty helped in the spread of both, great epidemics and famines would have happened anyway.”

  Matthew Yglesias » The Fall of Poland

• “The decision was a little harsh but it was ill-disciplined.”

  The Guardian: Leicester 12-26 Bath | LV Cup match report

• “The Afghan police force is notoriously corrupt and ill-disciplined.”

  The Guardian: Analysis: Killings by 'rogue' soldier another setback for Afghanistan policy

• “The knight was ill-disciplined, too proud to fight on foot, adhered only to the most rudimentary tactics and was poorly led.”

  De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History » The Myths of Medieval Warfare

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