TANNENBAUM Report 1940

Pully, 02.03.2024: An underfed Swiss Army, prey to underinvestment for over twenty years, marked by pacifist utopia and disarmament, good quality but old equipment, doctrinal divergences and especially differing affinities within the Army command… no, we are not talking about the current situation, but indeed about that of 1939-1940.

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