Combat readiness I would like to doubt this comment Despite the rise in Azerbaijan s defence budget which now doubles Armenia s entire state budget 13 the armed forces wwere assessed in 2008 as not having a high state of battle readiness and being ill prepared for wide scale combat operations First of all this information is from only one of sources and second of all combat readiness of army is could be disputed as that obsolete information based in 2008 and Azerbaijani army getting better from year to year