This was judged to be the worst defeat suffered by the army in the war, and put down to inadequate weapons and poor leadership.Sri Lanka turned to Israel for military help.
It is a good offensive weapon, a poor choice for the tragic events that played out in Way's bedroom.
These combined with the weapon's poor reliability – only six of twenty-eight bombs dropped successfully destroyed their targets – to result in the production order being canceled by the USAF; following this, the Tarzon program as a whole was terminated in August 1951.
Although police have made a number of arrests no one has yet been charged and it is believed that the case has been hampered by a lack of adequate forensic evidence, no murder weapon, and poor-quality eyewitness evidence.
Training facilities are poor, weapons are outdated and new vehicles are in short supply.
Syria is an example of the adage that chemical weapons are the poor man's nuclear deterrent.
They are also woefully indiscriminate weapons: plenty of poor Cubans, not to mention perfectly respectable foreign business people, have suffered needlessly.
Set in 1956 during the country's Rural Electrification Scheme, the film strains to show that light bulbs and electric cookers are poor weapons against moral and cultural darkness.
To "men-children" in their late teens thrust into the conflict, these were often the details that counted: bad planning, inadequate training, poor weapons, uninspiring superiors, desertions, self-inflicted wounds and ever-present fear.
But American officials say that as a practical reality, American facilities for dismantling weapons are in poor repair, and Russia has few spare resources for destruction of its own warheads.
