Watch Out Switzerland! The Red Army May Be Coming!
Switzerland. ‘Fight to the last cartridge, then use your bayonets!’ Gen. Henri Gulsan
So warned the retired US general Ben Hodges in an interview with the newspaper SonntagsBlick. Hodges was the former US military commander in Europe.
Before frightened Swiss start moving their gold and cows to mountain shelters, they should recall that Hodges was one of the crack US generals who led the US army to win brilliant victories in Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria.
Excuse me if I sound a bit cynical. I was a volunteer in the US regular army during the Vietnam era. I know the politicians handcuffed our generals at every turn. But wars are about political goals, not killing as many people as possible.
Gen. Hodges implied that the Russians could steamroll flimsy Swiss defenses. As a long-time resident of Switzerland, veteran war correspondent, and one of the first – if not the first – non-Swiss to be shown Switzerland’s top secret mountain forts, I advise all would-be invaders to steer clear of the small but fierce Helvetic Republic.
During the Renaissance, the thinker Niccolo Machiavelli said of the Swiss, ‘most heavily armed and most free.’ The Vatican’s Swiss Guards are a dramatic reminder of wha
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