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That's interesting I wonder if the neutral position it takes now is based on that mercenaries role. Don't take sides but profit.

by wolco 6y ago

cafard 6y ago
The preferred light anti-aircraft guns used by both sides in WW II were built under license, one from a Swiss company, one by a Swedish company.
barry-cotter 6y ago
Swiss neutrality was a decision of the Great Powers, not the Swiss. > Switzerland has the oldest policy of military neutrality in the world; [1] it has not participated in a foreign war since its neutrality was established by the Treaty of Paris in 1815. > Although the European powers (Austria, France, the United Kingdom, Portugal, Prussia, Russia, Spain and Sweden) agreed at the Congress of Vienna in May 1815 that Switzerland should be neutral, final ratification was delayed until after Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated so that some coalition forces could invade France via Swiss territory. ... > The dating of neutrality to 1516 is disputed by modern historians. Prior to 1895, no historian referenced the Battle of Marignano as the beginning of neutrality. The later backdating has to be seen in light of threats by several major powers in 1889 to rescind the neutrality granted to Switzerland in 1815. A publication by Paul Schweizer, titled Geschichte der schweizerischen Neutralität attempted to show that Swiss neutrality wasn't granted by other nations, but a decision they took themselves and thus couldn't be rescinded by others. The later publication of the same name by Edgar Bonjour, published between 1946 and 1975, expanded on this thesis. https://wikimili.com/en/Swiss_neutrality https://wikimili.com/en/Swiss_neutrality
hodgesrm 6y ago
During the Renaissance most soldiers in Italy were mercenaries. The use of citizens at large scale for soldiers dates to the French Revolution. Macchiavelli incidentally was a proponent of this idea but it did not go very far in his day, which was the early 1500s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev%C3%A9e_en_masse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev%C3%A9e_en_masse

That's interesting I wonder if the neutral position it takes now is based on that mercenaries role. Don't take sides but profit.

by wolco 6y ago

That's interesting I wonder if the neutral position it takes now is based on that mercenaries role. Don't take sides but profit.

cafard 6y ago

The preferred light anti-aircraft guns used by both sides in WW II were built under license, one from a Swiss company, one by a Swedish company.

barry-cotter 6y ago

Swiss neutrality was a decision of the Great Powers, not the Swiss. > Switzerland has the oldest policy of military neutrality in the world; [1] it has not participated in a foreign war since its neutrality was established by the Treaty of Paris in 1815. > Although the European powers (Austria, France, the United Kingdom, Portugal, Prussia, Russia, Spain and Sweden) agreed at the Congress of Vienna in May 1815 that Switzerland should be neutral, final ratification was delayed until after Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated so that some coalition forces could invade France via Swiss territory. ... > The dating of neutrality to 1516 is disputed by modern historians. Prior to 1895, no historian referenced the Battle of Marignano as the beginning of neutrality. The later backdating has to be seen in light of threats by several major powers in 1889 to rescind the neutrality granted to Switzerland in 1815. A publication by Paul Schweizer, titled Geschichte der schweizerischen Neutralität attempted to show that Swiss neutrality wasn't granted by other nations, but a decision they took themselves and thus couldn't be rescinded by others. The later publication of the same name by Edgar Bonjour, published between 1946 and 1975, expanded on this thesis. https://wikimili.com/en/Swiss_neutrality https://wikimili.com/en/Swiss_neutrality

hodgesrm 6y ago

During the Renaissance most soldiers in Italy were mercenaries. The use of citizens at large scale for soldiers dates to the French Revolution. Macchiavelli incidentally was a proponent of this idea but it did not go very far in his day, which was the early 1500s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev%C3%A9e_en_masse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev%C3%A9e_en_masse