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To: unclewest who wrote (12883)	12/5/2001 5:12:10 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Thanks UW... Forgot to mention Switzerland... where every swingin' Richard is mandated to have his weapon at home until something like age 45 (longer?) Hawk..

To: unclewest who wrote (12883)	12/5/2001 5:26:14 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 281500

there is another country that comes to mind where virtually every able bodied man is trained, armed and part of the national strategic reserve. which country? would you believe switzerland? True but I wouldn't call all those able bodied men part of Switzerland's army, nor do I think they would be very useful for Switzerland in a mobile war of conquest. They would be useful in harrassing and delaying any invader, and they would provide a pool from which men could be called up for refesher training and added to regular units, but Switzerland could never use most of them in an invasion if they had any desire to invade a neighbor. If you count all those reserves as part of Switzerland's army it would be larger then Germany's but I don't think it would have much chance of takeing over Germany, or even Italy or France. Also I think 8.5 million is more then every able bodied man in North Korea. They would have to have something like 150% of the able bodied men in their country as part of their army to have so many soldiers or over 200% if you accept the CIA factbook's estimate of men 15-49 that are "fit for military service" Tim