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June 18, 2012

Invade Switzerland? I don't think so.

The Swiss military has, in effect, wired the entire country to blow in the event of foreign invasion. To keep enemy armies out, bridges will be dynamited, and, when possible, deliberately collapsed onto any roads and bridges below; hills have been weaponized to be activated as valley-sweeping artificial landslides; mountain tunnels will be sealed from within to act as nuclear-proof air raid shelters; and much more. -- BLDGBLOG: Various forms of lithic disguise

Posted by gerardvanderleun at June 18, 2012 12:43 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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Looks like they could teach the "doomsday preppers"
a thing or two.

Posted by: mjazzguitar at June 18, 2012 2:56 PM

What about their Navy? That should bring fear to invaders.

Posted by: Peccable at June 18, 2012 3:55 PM

Also notable, the entire adult male population is armed at home with military-grade weaponry
and required to train in proficiency on a regular basis.

Posted by: GaGator at June 18, 2012 5:16 PM

Bill Jones: It is far better to spend trillions on war, than it is to spend 75 cents on food stamps. Free men must glory in war, only slaves care about pensions.

The Swiss Army is the model for Israel's army, which is the reason why Israel will never be defeated by its Muslim Neighbors. Muslim countries have always depend on foreign slaves to be their armies, which will always be the source of their degradation.

The Swiss Army was chronicled by John McPhee in:

http://www.amazon.com/Place-Concorde-Suisse-John-McPhee/dp/0374519323/

I read his original articles in the New Yorker back in the 70s. I knew about the Israeli army, but after I read McPhees, I understood it. I also understood that the New Yorker propagates the slave ideology of leftism.

Sic semper tyrannis.

Posted by: Fat Man at June 18, 2012 6:24 PM

"Also notable, the entire adult male population is armed at home with military-grade weaponry and required to train in proficiency on a regular basis."


That can't possibly be true. I mean, why don't they have a massive death rate due to gun violence? People owning assault rifles and not spraying crowds at the local mall (do they have malls in Switzerland?) on a weekly basis.


The deuce you say!

Posted by: Tom at June 19, 2012 2:49 AM

I mean, why don't they have a massive death rate due to gun violence?

Invisible "/sarc" tag noted.

An armed society is a polite society.

The reason the Swiss have successfully maintained their neutrality is because they made it quietly clear that any survivors of an army strong enough to penetrate their defenses would find they'd only succeeded in conquering a gravel pit.

Posted by: BillT at June 19, 2012 4:41 AM

The Swedes, blessed with a better neighborhood than the Swiss, have done much the same thing. Neutral like the Swiss, the Swedes have understood since after WW2 that their only real threat came from the east (and I don't mean Finland), and have arrayed their formidable, but low-key, defenses accordingly. Switzerland is well-known as a tough nut to crack. Sweden is too, although you might never know it if you didn't know what to look for.

Posted by: waltj at June 20, 2012 10:25 AM

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