Originally Posted by
farefield
"I can think of a lot of scruffs who hammered beautifully turned out units. The original SAS, the Chindits, the Boers, the Israeli Army, the Taliban come to mind - a bit short on smartness but a lot more lethal"
It's a bit difficult to remain smartly turned out in the desert, jungle, veldt, desert, mountains.
But we don't fight people on the parade ground (well....)