01123nas a2200181   4500000000100000000000100001000000100002008004100003260006800044653003100112653002000143653002000163653001300183100001900196700001800215245008600233520062200319       2014                            d  cJanuary 2014bCentre for Security and Defence ManagementaSofia10aforce protection standards10alessons learned10amission command10atraining1 aValeri Ratchev1 aTodor Tagarev00aWhat needs to be done to avoid a repetition of ‘Karbala 2003’? (in Bulgarian)3 aTen years after the lethal attack on the Bulgarian contingent’s base in Karbala, Iraq, and on the occasion of the declassification of the defence ministry commission’s report on the case, the authors formulate key problems that need to be resolved in order to avoid similar tragedies in the future, i.e. to focus training of the armed forces, and their overall development, on modern operations, to introduce effectively the norms and practices of mission command, to adhere to the modern standards for protecting forces on mission, and to create an effective unit for analysis and formulation of lessons learned.