combat-ready

combat-ready

1. (military) Prepared for combat or military operations.
   • 1984, United States Army Aviation Digest, page 4:

     To define the specific preservation, maintenance and depreservation necessary to maintain FMC aircraft combat ready while in prepositioned storage.

   • 2004, Alexander Golts, “Military Reform in Russia: Conscription versus Professionalism”, in Kristina Spohr Readman, editor, Building Sustainable and Effective Military Capabilities: A Systemic Comparison of Professional and Conscript Forces (Science and Technology Policy; 45), Amsterdam: IOS Press, →ISBN, part IV (Reforming Postcommunist Militaries – The Difficulties of Changing Structures and Cultures), page 140:

     Based on our analysis above we can conclude that it is unlikely that the Federal Programme will result in the emergence of truly new, modern, and professional Armed Forces in Russia. But can the country achieve at least the creation of a few combat-ready units? In our view even this is more than doubtful, since the specific culture of conscript Armed Forced seems to prohibit the creation of even a small number of professional units.

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