War games

[EternalOptimist]

The Swiss will be okay with their handy knives and excellent laptop bag-cum-rucksacks.

qh

Dont forget the crack battalion of the 1st mechanised cuckoo clock dragoons


they'r killers they are

[quackhandle]

The Swiss will be okay with their handy knives and excellent laptop bag-cum-rucksacks.

qh

[vetran]

If they already got their money, then why waste them invading?

maybe they need their expertise in personal hygiene?

[AtW]

If the French are that skint, maybe the Swiss should have another crack at invading France

If they already got their money, then why waste them invading?

[DirtyDog]

Couldn't they play a nice game of chess instead?

[OwlHoot]

Swiss war game envisages invasion by bankrupt French

"Hordes of bankrupt French invade Switzerland to get their hands on their “stolen” money — such is the imaginary scenario cooked up by the Swiss military in simulations revealed over the weekend. ...

If the French are that skint, maybe the Swiss should have another crack at invading France, as their ancestors the Helvetii tried over two thousand years ago, on account of population pressure as they claimed at the time.

As Julius Caesar, who was then starting his conquest of Gaul, feared the lands they had left behind would be occupied by German tribes he ordered them to return, and when they refused he massacred 263,000 Helvetii and quite a few other tribes who had joined them.

Having been reduced in numbers by 70% they decided that overpopulation wasn't an issue any more, and toddled back to Switzerland, where their descendants have stayed to this day.

[scooterscot]

Great movie that.

[amcdonald]

Could the swiss cope with that many people surrendering enmasse ?

[AtW]

Swiss war game envisages invasion by bankrupt French

"Hordes of bankrupt French invade Switzerland to get their hands on their “stolen” money — such is the imaginary scenario cooked up by the Swiss military in simulations revealed over the weekend.

Carried out in August, the apparently outlandish army exercise was based on the premise of an attack by a financially stricken France split into warring regions, according to Matin Dimanche, the Lausanne-based daily.

One of these, “Saônia,” corresponding to the existing Jura region, was preparing attacks on Switzerland to retrieve money it had apparently swiped from France.

Operation “Duplex-Barbara” went as far as imagining a three-pronged invasion from points near Neufchâtel, Lausanne and Geneva, according to a map published in the Swiss newspaper.

Behind the dastardly raid was a paramilitary organisation dubbed BLD, the Dijon Free Brigade bent on grabbing back “money that Switzerland had stolen from Saônia”.

“For its credibility, the Swiss army must work (to ward against) threats of the 21st century,” Antoine Vielliard, Hauate-Savoie councillor, told Matin Dimanche. "

Source: Swiss war game envisages invasion by bankrupt French - Telegraph