During WW2 Hitler had plans to invade Switzerland: 21 in total and each times his generals had to talk him out of them. He would have find himself paralyzed in a long war with one of the smallest country of Europe as all of the tunnels and bridges of the country had been mined. While the German initial plans foresaw 21 German divisions being used, according to Operation Tannenbaum, 11 German divisions and roughly 15 more Italian divisions were prepared to enter Switzerland involving up to half a million German & Italian soldiers for the invasion and a minimum of 200,000 soldiers would have been based permanently on the Swiss territory while they would still be continuously targeted by the Swiss guerrilla resistance. The Supreme High Command of the German Army (OKH - Oberkommando des Heeres) was expecting over 200,000 casualties on their combined end.

In June 1940 during six days of aerial battles, eleven German aircraft were downed, with a loss of two Swiss aircraft and three airmen killed.

In addition a total of 1,570 American airmen were interned in Switzerland for violating our airspace. They were never officially recognized as prisoners of war because Switzerland was not at war with the United States. On April 30, 2014 the Pentagon awarded medals to 143 of them.


Recently Switzerland has reformed its military and until recently the country could have mobilized 400,000 soldiers in 24 hours, even if the whole transportation infrastructure would have come to a complete halt. During your military service you are trained to walk a distance of 50km with all of your equipment and on average the whole company covers that distance in somewhere between 6 to 8 hours. Once you finish your instruction school you go back home with your weapon and come back every year for a 3-weeks service until you are 40-years old. The mobilization order would have a location you have to go to within a 50km distance from where you live. Since that reform the Swiss army has been cut in half. Nonetheless you had in 2009 available for military service age 16 to 49: 1,852,580 males + 1,475,993 females according to Wikipedia (Military of Switzerland) to kick whomever's ass.

The Fass or Stgw 90 which we have to keep home with us.

The country is mountainous and we take good advantage of that geography to defend ourselves. Our pilots are trained to land on highways


and our mountains are full of tunnels where we can hide these jets and all sorts of other weapons. Switzerland is unique in having enough nuclear fallout shelters to accommodate its entire population , should they ever be needed. Since the 1960s construction began for radiation and blast shelters that can survive one to three bars of pressure from a nuclear explosion. In 2006, there were 300,000 shelters in Swiss dwellings, institutions and hospitals, as well as 5,100 public shelters, providing protection for a total of 8.6 million individuals – a coverage of 114 per cent.

And we are trained to become yetis if necessary

Our Mountain Service Forces are obliged to participate to the prestigious annual "Patrouille des Glaciers" race (2014 attendance 5,400 racers)


So good luck for any candidate and while the invading army would have to deal with logistics to bring any food for their soldiers, our caves are full of chocolates and cheese. While our toblerone's are not all chocolate made The Toblerone Line, One Sweet Barrier.

In 2003 Swiss citizens voted for Switzerland to become a member of the Schengen treaty therefore allowing to reduce military spending. If in 1979 military spending represented 1.9% of GDP today it is only 0.7% as the neighboring countries do not represent any potential threat. The reform allowed to cut the military personnel from 524,000 to 220,000 and free up some cash to upgrade equipment.

Since then the Swiss have been redefining the mission statement for their armed defense. The army does not take part in armed conflicts in other countries, but it does participate in international peacekeeping missions. Switzerland is part of the NATO Partnership for Peace program. From 1996 to 2001, the Swiss Army was present in Bosnia and Herzegovina with headquarters in Sarajevo. Its mission, part of the Swiss Peacekeeping Missions, was to provide logistic and medical support to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), protection duties and humanitarian demining. The mission was named SHQSU, standing for Swiss Headquarters Support Unit to BiH. It was composed of 50 to 55 elite Swiss soldiers under contract for six to 12 months. None of the active soldiers were armed during the duration of the mission. The Swiss soldiers were recognized among the other armies present on the field by their distinctive yellow beret. The SHQSU is not the same as the more publicized Swisscoy, which is the Swiss Army Mission to Kosovo. Switzerland is part of the Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission (NNSC), which was created to monitor the armistice between North and South Korea. Since the responsibilities of the NNSC have been much reduced over the past few years, only five people are still part of the Swiss delegation, which is located near the Korean DMZ (Source: Wikipedia).

As Igor Markov correctly points out threats would be from a different nature such as economic sanctions. In 2008 Swiss authorities arrested in their hotel room Hannibal Gaddafi (son of the former Libyan leader) and his wife on charges of bodily harm, coercion and threats made to their own personnel they flew with while visiting Switzerland. The charges were later dropped but relations between the two countries soured and in 2009 Libyan authorities arrested two Swiss nationals in retaliation.

Recently the Rand Corporation has been citing in one of their research documents http://www.rand.org/content/dam/... the "Swiss approach" contained in a book authored by Swiss Army major Hans von Dach "Der Totale Widerstand—Kleinkriegsanleitung für Jedermann" [Total Resistance—Small War Instructions for Everyone].

Key elements of the "Swiss approach"

can be categorized according to three lines of effort:

preparing for infrastructure denial
preparing for unconventional military resistance operations
preparing for civilian resistance activities

Source: https://www.quora.com/What-will-happen-if-a-country-tried-to-invade-declared-war-on-Switzerland

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Except the Lord keeps the city, the watchmen watch in vain.

Germny will over run switzerlan in less than a week

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Except the Lord keeps the city, the watchmen watch in vain.

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