Fuck.

[Pat Mustard]

Back to the will to fight.  I've been wondering for some time why we fail so hard there when it comes to training foreign nationals.  Are we bad at picking winners, good at picking losers...why doesn't it work?  Works for us.  I suspect theres a failure at the NCO or CO level that accounts for it...but it's unlikely that we'd ever get any honest data on that. We'd have to ask the NCO/COs.......

From what I can see (totally from the outside, I'm too short, fat and blind to be part of a non-conscription army {though I could fix the weight with more effort}), the lack of success with foreign bodies is probably more to do with who the politicians decide to treat as allies, and the condition of those foreign countries. For example, if you look at US and UK efforts to rebuild the Iraqi army, they picked a massively corrupt crowd to rule the country and demobbed the original army so you've got political decisions meaning that training efforts hampered the procurement of equipment and all the best soldiers have fecked off elsewhere where the pay is better, and you're working with green, underfed and undereducated boys in most instances.

I'd say that'd make the job much harder.