With the continuing widespread purge of the army, concerns have been growing in Turkey about the country's preparedness for war at a time when instability at its border with neighboring Syria has been intensifying.
As Secretary of State Colin L. Powell arrived in Islamabad today on a mission to get India and Pakistan to talk about peace, India was still trumpeting its preparedness for war.
In Britain, part of the reasoning was based on an exaggerated belief in Germany's and Italy's preparedness for war.
The United States went from a posture of imminent preparedness for a war in Europe in 1990, to a situation where major ground conflict in Europe no longer factored in American military planning.
In many regards this led to a general complacency towards defence and military matters after the war and arguably led to the nation's lack of preparedness for the next war, while it may still be evident in Australian strategic behaviour to this day.
In Israel, there is heated debate about the country's preparedness for a "tunnel war".
"Sometimes I wish there were more people who knew more about nation-building," the colonel admits in a stinging indictment of our institutional preparedness for the Iraq War and for nation-building in general.
Shen Dingli, a leading security expert at Fudan University in Shanghai, said the military's response did not reflect well on the military's preparedness for a potential war with, say, Taiwan, the independently governed island that China claims as its sovereign territory.
His support for conscription and military preparedness for the coming war proved unpopular with voters and cost him considerable support, but according to historian William Radcliff it was Wilkie's favorite son status, which led many Hoosiers to vote Republican, that proved to be the election's deciding factor.
In later years Justice Landau was involved in several high-profile judicial inquiries, including investigations into Israel's preparedness for the Yom Kippur War and the use of excessive physical force by Shin Bet, the country's internal security agency.
In the mid-1970s, Justice Landau served on the Agranat Commission, convened to determine responsibility for what was seen as Israel's lack of preparedness for the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, known as the Yom Kippur War.
