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"In World War II, the Swiss had defenses no other country had. Let's begin with the rifle in every home combined with the Alpine terrain. When the German Kaiser
by chrisbennet 8y ago
"In World War II, the Swiss had defenses no other country had. Let's begin with the rifle in every home combined with the Alpine terrain. When the German Kaiser asked in 1912 what the quarter of a million Swiss militiamen would do if invaded by a half million German soldiers, a Swiss replied: shoot twice and go home."
http://davekopel.org/2A/OthWr/Target_Switzerland.htm http://davekopel.org/2A/OthWr/Target_Switzerland.htm