Country profile 路 public, aggregate figures
Netherlands
Netherlands fields 41,000 active soldiers and 6,000 reservists, with 20 tanks and 50 combat aircraft. It shares a land border with 2 countries. Below is how the model plays out a war on each of those borders.
Netherlands in numbers
Active soldiers
41,000
Reservists
6,000
Tanks
20
Armoured vehicles
500
Artillery
50
Combat aircraft
50
Helicopters
60
Defence budget
$21.0bn
GDP
$1,100bn
Population
18.0m
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 Netherlands
Europe vs Russia, without the United States
Ceasefire, front frozen after 270 days
The European Union vs Russia
Ceasefire, front frozen after 305 days
Germany vs Netherlands
Ceasefire, front frozen after 342 days
The Joint Expeditionary Force vs Russia
Side A achieves its objectives after 25 days
Netherlands vs Belgium
Defender holds after 351 days
Neighbours
Build your own scenario with Netherlands
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.