TY - RPRT KW - force protection standards KW - lessons learned KW - mission command KW - training AU - Valeri Ratchev AU - Todor Tagarev AB - Ten 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. BT - CSDM Views CY - Sofia DA - January 2014 DO - https://doi.org/10.11610/views.0025 LA - eng M1 - 25 N2 - Ten 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. PB - Centre for Security and Defence Management PP - Sofia PY - 2014 T2 - CSDM Views TI - What needs to be done to avoid a repetition of ‘Karbala 2003’? (in Bulgarian) ER -