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🇦🇱 Albania vs 🏳️ KosovoMilitary comparison, and what happens if they fight
If Albania attacked Kosovo today, with no allies joining on either side, this is what the WARSCAPE engine produced: Defender holds after 333 days.
How the two militaries compare
Albania keeps 2.0 times as many soldiers under arms. Albania spends 2.7 times as much on defence. Public, country-level figures from the data snapshot the run was pinned to (2026.09). See data sources for where each number comes from.
AlbaniaKosovo
8,000Active soldiers4,000
2,000Reservists3,000
0Tanks0
30Artillery10
0Combat aircraft0
10Helicopters5
$0.4bnDefence budget$0.1bn
2.8mPopulation1.8m
What the war cost
Albania
attacked
1,004
soldiers killed or wounded
0
tanks destroyed
0
aircraft lost
0
land changed hands
33%
support at home, at the end
Kosovo
defended
161
soldiers killed or wounded
0
tanks destroyed
0
aircraft lost
0
land changed hands
46%
support at home, at the end
What decided it
01
Mobilisation helped Albania
Reservists mobilised: 46,518 vs 2,479.
02
Deployed combat power helped Albania
Average deployed combat power: 2 vs 1 model units.
03
Air situation helped Albania
Average share of air control for Albania: 63%.
04
Political cohesion helped Kosovo
Average cohesion: 45% vs 54%.
05
Logistics helped Albania
Average front-line supply efficiency: 81% vs 75%.
Think it would go differently?
This run assumed no allies, winter, full mobilization for the attacker and partial for the defender, and no nuclear weapons. Change any of that and watch it play out day by day on the map.
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After 333 simulated days the conflict between Albania and Kosovo ended with: Defender holds (prolonged stalemate). Aggregate personnel losses within the model: 1,004 (Albania) and 161 (Kosovo). This page reports one seeded run of a model on public, aggregate data. It is not a prediction, and no operational information is used.
Model-generated simulation on public, country-level data. Not a prediction. No operational, classified or real-time information is used.