"There are training, organizational and equipment shortfalls in the Iraqi security forces," said Brig.
Earlier this year, the Pentagon reported that just for the Army National Guard, equipment shortfalls amounted to nearly $50 billion.
American officials say that the capabilities of North Korea's Army have begun to erode because of equipment shortfalls and training deficiencies.
The Afghan army is plagued by poor morale, high desertion rates, weak training, equipment shortfalls and limited medical support.
Low levels of staff motivation due to a lack of equipment, frequent shortfalls of supplies, high vacancy rates and mounting workloads appear to be - after chronic staff shortages - the second most important workforce problem in African countries, especially in rural areas and facilities [ 3, 5].
The health care system, widely accepted to be underfunded, with just 2% of the GNP being spent on health care, has created an obvious shortfall in equipment, supplies and health care personnel; moreover, it has affected their education and training.
The trouble is the shortfalls in equipment which, despite years of ministerial talk about remedying them (and the possibility of borrowing some things from NATO), remain serious.
The carriers have the equipment in place, but the shortfall is on the county side, where local call centers haven't gotten up to speed technically".
Britain's armed forces budget is "fundamentally unaffordable", a cross-party group of senior MPs says today, warning that the Ministry of Defence may have to cancel whole equipment programmes to fill the shortfall, which could be as high as £36bn.
Chilcot revealed that by the time the war started, nobody in government appeared to have overall responsibility for postwar planning; and nobody in the military was taking responsibility for the shortfalls in vital equipment.
