Swiss Army: Other Than the Knife What is the Point

摘要

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.