321:. Switzerland was a neutral country with a military strength to rival Germany. It has a war time strength of 625,000 men (more than i.e. Italy) and built around 16,000 bunkers and underground air bases. Plus the Swiss defense concept of Armee 61 with it's fortress brigades, frontier brigades, field divisions, mechanized divisions, mountain divisions, reduit brigades and territorial zones (reserve divisions), was along with the Austrian defense concept one of the most interesting of the Cold War. (in short: frontier brigades would slow down the enemy, field divisions and mountain divisions would grind down the enemy, mechanized divisions would counter attack the enemy, territorial zones (brigade-sized) for rear area security in the operational areas of the above units, and fortress brigades to block the key valleys leading into the
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Western European countries were. A global war was a distinct possibility, and most 1989 orbats are notable. The entry will need to sourced however over time, however -
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Switzerland was as much set up for the Cold War as the other European countries at that time, if not more so, and as such if the other ORBATs from that era are kept this one should be too.
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