In the early 1990s, thousands of American troops withdrew from Somalia in disarray after a badly planned anti-famine intervention went sour.
At the end of the month, a badly planned and potentially suicidal attack on Falgemont Farm was cancelled by Pinney at the last minute when the "facts were pointed out" by Montgomery, and a new plan substituted; the attacking battalion took the farm with light casualties.
Rick Atkinson has labelled the mission "a foolish, wanton mistake" let down by inadequate intelligence; and Peter Harclerode makes a similar argument, writing that the mission was "a disastrous episode, badly planned and based on faulty intelligence".
This book is the official account, commissioned by the British Cabinet Office and sourced largely from the SOE's own files, of a series of badly planned, poorly executed missions as the allies tried to get a toehold inside Mussolini's Italy.Once Italy had been identified as ripe for infiltration, the British government required instant results.
Vernon goaded Wentworth into an ill-considered, badly planned assault on the fort, an outlying strong-point of Cartagena, which Vernon refused to support with the fleet making specious excuses about the depth of the harbor.
This research involves a lengthy study of Marche territory, a region which is well-known for its particular "Marche way to development": small companies and small towns linked by a close network of badly planned settlement filaments.
This operation was badly planned and did not have a clear purpose; it was launched as both a reconnaissance in force and a counter-attack, but evolved into an attempt to establish a blocking force at KB Mission.
Hours after the attacks, a Diyala security official admitted that the recruitment was badly planned.
The resettlement is almost always badly planned and executed.In this section A flood of fiascos Dambuilders and dambusters When size matters The ultimate fridge magnet ReprintsNonetheless dams are seen, by many poor countries in particular, as the only cost-effective way to generate power (and often to export it as well) and husband water.
Although the Internet Watch Foundation, which works to stop the spread of child exploitation imagery online, warned against unintended consequences from badly planned legislation — and urged the government to take a "balanced approach".
"This dam was badly planned and unviable from the very beginning, the delusion of a pair of dictatorial governments, and I can guarantee you that even as I speak, people are still misappropriating money," said Ángela Vergara de Miranda, a dentist and civic leader here.
