The Swiss Army: Other Than the Knife What is the Point

Abstract

If students of the renowned Swiss military theorist, Antoine-Henri Jomini, equate his strategy of warfare to those of a game of chess, then his native country today can be said to have attained a highly successful "draw" on the world's gameboard. The history of Switzerland shows that it has been fairly adept as a nation in reassessing the role of its military to fit its national interests. A 1989 referendum prompted by a growing anti-military movement spurred a national debate over the utility of an army for a small neutral nation. For the present at least, the Swiss military seems to have survived this basically economically motivated call for its abolition.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1998
Accession Number
ADA441826

Entities

People

  • Barbara Cummings

Organizations

  • National War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Counter WMD
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Power
  • Army
  • Center Of Gravity
  • Cold War
  • Governments
  • Intergovernmental Organizations
  • International Organizations
  • International Relations
  • Military Capabilities
  • Military Organizations
  • National Security
  • New York
  • Nuclear Weapons
  • Security
  • War
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Educational Psychology
  • International Relations and Conflict Resolution
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.