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  • You are similarly critical of the commandos being underarmed, although somewhat less clear about what more capacious weapons would have accomplished.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Pollak on Uniquely Israeli Stupidity 2010

  • The media needs to take a bit more care in the reporting of rumour and highly speculative military miracles, such as the sudden defeat of a NATO nation at the hands of underarmed Third World guerillas who operate mostly by night covert-ops.

    2008 June 17 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008

  • You are similarly critical of the commandos being underarmed, although somewhat less clear about what more capacious weapons would have accomplished.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Pollak on Uniquely Israeli Stupidity 2010

  • The media needs to take a bit more care in the reporting of rumour and highly speculative military miracles, such as the sudden defeat of a NATO nation at the hands of underarmed Third World guerillas who operate mostly by night covert-ops.

    Taliban To Attack Kandahar? Not Likely « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008

  • Azad Taheev Balabanian y is it always from the jew side? why do arabs always end up as the enemy? every freakin movie that includes arab makes them look like they're all these undertrained, underarmed, stupid nomads who want to blow up the world. i mean this movie's setting is during the Lebanese Civil war which was a ARAB fight!

    Sony Classics Buys Venice Winner Lebanon, a ‘Hurt Locker-Style War Film’ | /Film 2009

  • He served in that brutal Russo-Japanese War of 1904, where the Russians were underarmed and suffered horrible losses.

    In the Frame Helen Mirren 2007

  • He served in that brutal Russo-Japanese War of 1904, where the Russians were underarmed and suffered horrible losses.

    In the Frame Helen Mirren 2007

  • They were underarmed, undermanned, and without a strategy to win and they have served valiantly and courageously.

    CNN Transcript Jan 9, 2007 2007

  • When evidence surfaced that their mission (prosaically, to pick up and deliver kitchen equipment) was underarmed and probably ill conceived, the families of the dead soldiers sued Blackwater.

    The Man Behind Blackwater 2007

  • The proponents seemed underarmed for the debate and, not surprisingly, it swung against them, particularly when Schmidt made the fatal debating error of dismissing the ability of the audience to judge the scientific nuances.

    The East Side Debate « Climate Audit 2007

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