According to NATO figures last year, only one of the Afghan National Army's 158 battalions has been rated as able to fight independently, according to figures compiled by the Brookings Institution; that was up from zero the year earlier.
Rebels from the western mountains, the mid-coastal city of Misurata and the eastern city of Benghazi each fought independently, and often rolled their eyes in condescension at one another.
Afghanistan's police and army are losing too many men in battle, and may need up to five more years of western support before they can fight independently, the top US and Nato commander in the country has told the Guardian.
Most of the "foreign fighters" filtering into Syria to join rebel groups, or fight independently alongside them, are Sunnis from other countries in the Middle East and North Africa, the UN investigators said, reporting on their findings after their latest interviews conducted in the region.
At that point, the guerrillas in southern Zhejiang fought independently during the Sino-Japanese war.
Earlier discussions with Sony had flatlined over price, but he says the company was willing to continue to fight independently, too.
Each detachment fought independently under the previously agreed to plan to surround and destroy the Loyalists.
Battalions, companies, and platoons, cut off and isolated, fought independently of higher control and help except for airdrops which supplied many of them.
Due to the nature of the early campaign in New Guinea the NGVR never fought as a formed unit, with it sub-units scattered and forced to fight independently instead.
However, it made things more difficult for the conquistadors; unlike the Aztecs and Inca societies, which were run from a central government, the Mayans had no overreaching central structure and so fought independently, often fiercely until one by one they were conquered.
