Warscape
Country profile 路 public, aggregate figures

Belgium

Belgium fields 25,000 active soldiers and 6,000 reservists, with 10 tanks and 50 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
25,000
Reservists
6,000
Tanks
10
Armoured vehicles
300
Artillery
20
Combat aircraft
50
Helicopters
30
Defence budget
$8.0bn
GDP
$630bn
Population
11.7m

Compiled from public sources and pinned to a versioned snapshot. Values marked as estimates are labelled as such 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.