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Belgium

Belgium fields 23,500 active soldiers and 5,900 reservists, with no tanks and 44 combat aircraft. It shares a land border with 4 countries. Below is how the model plays out a war on each of those borders.

Belgium in numbers

Active soldiers
23,500
Reservists
5,900
Tanks
0
Armoured vehicles
300est.
Artillery
20est.
Combat aircraft
44
Helicopters
30est.
Defence budget
$14.5bn
GDP
$725bn
Population
11.9m

From free public sources: Wikipedia's country lists (citing the IISS Military Balance), the CIA World Factbook and the World Bank. Figures marked est. have no free source and are model estimates; every value's source is on the data sources page. Not operational information.

Simulated wars involving Belgium

Belgium vs Luxembourg
Side A achieves its objectives after 125 days
France vs Belgium
Side A achieves its objectives after 155 days
Germany vs Belgium
Ceasefire, front frozen after 316 days
Netherlands vs Belgium
Defender holds after 351 days

Neighbours

GermanyFranceLuxembourgNetherlands
Build your own scenario with Belgium

Pick who it fights, who joins in, the season and how much of the reserve is called up, then watch the front move day by day.

Model-generated simulation on public, country-level data. Not a prediction. No operational, classified or real-time information is used.