1. Compared with Indonesia, India has even more atrocious infrastructure, more intractable insurgencies, more terrorist attacks, and often awful relations with neighbours. 与印尼相比，印度基础设施更为糟糕，国内动乱更为难解，恐怖袭击活动更多，且与邻国关系经常不睦。
2. Some British soldiers assumed that service in Northern Ireland made them smarter at fighting insurgencies than the galumphing Americans, who were also thought to be casualty-averse. 一些英国士兵认为：在北爱尔兰服役使得他们在反对叛乱分子方面，比趾高气扬的美国大兵更加有效，也认为美军贪生怕死。
