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Originally Posted by Truth-Bringer
But Belgium was not as prepared, militarily, as Switzerland was. You have to be neutral AND militarily strong. The Swiss national militia is a perfect model for this.
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Belgium was strategically very important, Switzerland was not. Not in those specific cases. The geography did also help a lot in favor of the Swiss.
Belgium could have militarized as much as it wanted, it would not have saved them, unless they would have ruined their economy and put every single coin into the army already before the war and even then...