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Latvia
Latvia fields 8,000 active soldiers and 30,000 reservists, with no tanks and no combat aircraft. It shares a land border with 4 countries. Below is how the model plays out a war on each of those borders.
Latvia in numbers
Active soldiers
8,000
Reservists
30,000
Tanks
0
Armoured vehicles
200
Artillery
50
Combat aircraft
0
Helicopters
0
Defence budget
$1.5bn
GDP
$45bn
Population
1.9m
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 Latvia
The Baltic states vs Russia
Side A achieves its objectives after 27 days
Belarus vs Latvia
Ceasefire, front frozen after 334 days
The Joint Expeditionary Force vs Russia
Side A achieves its objectives after 25 days
Latvia vs Estonia
Defender holds after 365 days
Lithuania vs Latvia
Defender holds after 365 days
NATO's eastern flank vs Russia
Side A achieves its objectives after 53 days
Russia vs Latvia
Side A achieves its objectives after 49 days
Neighbours
Build your own scenario with Latvia
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.