The police are ill-equipped and the army is still making the tricky switch from a guerrilla movement to a professional national force.
The government's own troops are ill-equipped and rarely paid.
Ever since Indonesia declared independence in 1945, the police had been the neglected, ill-equipped little brother of the army.
The newly nationalised oil industry kept the structure of the old, and production was limited to try to moderate the flood of money into a country ill-equipped to handle it.
Others argue that climate change was more to blame, leaving a species adapted for frozen climes ill-equipped to cope with a warming world.
At 18, he was ill-equipped for such a responsible job.
Inequality is another front on which the bank is ill-equipped to fight.
And its big but ill-equipped armed forces, perhaps the navy aside, trouble no military planners outside of South Asia.
The Clinton Administration and most of the technically ill-equipped media have repeated it over and over so many times that it is conceivable that they now believe it themselves.
They were psychologically vulnerable and hence ill-equipped to either resist this fellow's predations or to deal with them emotionally after they had occurred.
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