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🇫🇷 France vs 🇮🇹 ItalyMilitary comparison, and what happens if they fight

If France attacked Italy today, with no allies joining on either side, this is what the WARSCAPE engine produced: Defender holds after 269 days.

How the two militaries compare

France keeps 1.2 times as many soldiers under arms. Both have a comparable number of tanks. France has 1.3 times the combat aircraft. France spends 1.8 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.

FranceItaly
205,000Active soldiers165,000
40,000Reservists18,000
220Tanks200
110Artillery150
250Combat aircraft200
400Helicopters350
$62.0bnDefence budget$35.0bn
68.0mPopulation59.0m

What the war cost

France
attacked
20,602
soldiers killed or wounded
57
tanks destroyed
125
aircraft lost
0
land changed hands
37%
support at home, at the end
Italy
defended
6,933
soldiers killed or wounded
22
tanks destroyed
146
aircraft lost
0
land changed hands
54%
support at home, at the end

What decided it

01
Mobilisation helped France
Reservists mobilised: 387,140 vs 16,325.
02
Air situation helped France
Average share of air control for France: 60%.
03
Deployed combat power helped France
Average deployed combat power: 61 vs 42 model units.
04
Economic resilience helped France
Average economic stability index: 0.96 vs 0.80.
05
Political cohesion helped Italy
Average cohesion: 54% vs 60%.
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 269 simulated days the conflict between France and Italy ended with: Defender holds (prolonged stalemate). Aggregate personnel losses within the model: 20,602 (France) and 6,933 (Italy). 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.