They did not stay out of war by not being armed, rather the opposite. A mountainous country with a large army would be very difficult to invade in the first place and then very costly to control.
Back in the day, Switzerland was one of Europe’s main sources of armies-for-hire. We see the echoes of that today in the Swiss Guard in Vatican City, for instance.
The Swiss have managed to stay out of wars for a very long time and are famously neutral.
@zxqwas @Patnou what’s swiss knife then ??
Survival tool. :)
They did not stay out of war by not being armed, rather the opposite. A mountainous country with a large army would be very difficult to invade in the first place and then very costly to control.
Back in the day, Switzerland was one of Europe’s main sources of armies-for-hire. We see the echoes of that today in the Swiss Guard in Vatican City, for instance.