Country profile 路 public, aggregate figures
Italy
Italy fields 165,000 active soldiers and 18,000 reservists, with 200 tanks and 200 combat aircraft. It shares a land border with 4 countries. Below is how the model plays out a war on each of those borders.
Italy in numbers
Active soldiers
165,000
Reservists
18,000
Tanks
200
Armoured vehicles
1,200
Artillery
150
Combat aircraft
200
Helicopters
350
Defence budget
$35.0bn
GDP
$2,300bn
Population
59.0m
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 Italy
Europe vs Russia, without the United States
Ceasefire, front frozen after 270 days
The European Union vs Russia
Ceasefire, front frozen after 305 days
France vs Italy
Defender holds after 269 days
Italy vs Austria
Partial objective achieved after 365 days
Italy vs Slovenia
Side A achieves its objectives after 65 days
Italy vs Switzerland
Ceasefire, front frozen after 261 days
NATO vs Russia
Defender holds after 210 days
Neighbours
Build your own scenario with Italy
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.