Warscape
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🇩🇪 Germany vs 🇦🇹 AustriaMilitary comparison, and what happens if they fight

If Germany attacked Austria today, with no allies joining on either side, this is what the WARSCAPE engine produced: Ceasefire, front frozen after 213 days.

How the two militaries compare

Germany keeps 8.3 times as many soldiers under arms. Germany has 6.0 times the tanks. Germany has 15 times the combat aircraft. Germany spends 23 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.

GermanyAustria
182,000Active soldiers22,000
35,000Reservists120,000
300Tanks50
150Artillery80
220Combat aircraft15
250Helicopters60
$90.0bnDefence budget$4.0bn
84.0mPopulation9.1m

What the war cost

Germany
attacked
12,043
soldiers killed or wounded
57
tanks destroyed
72
aircraft lost
+27
areas of land gained
62%
support at home, at the end
Austria
defended
3,859
soldiers killed or wounded
7
tanks destroyed
11
aircraft lost
−27
areas of land lost
37%
support at home, at the end

What decided it

01
Deployed combat power helped Germany
Average deployed combat power: 43 vs 6 model units.
02
Air situation helped Germany
Average share of air control for Germany: 83%.
03
Mobilisation helped Germany
Reservists mobilised: 283,971 vs 80,513.
04
Logistics helped Germany
Average front-line supply efficiency: 76% vs 40%.
05
Political cohesion helped Germany
Average cohesion: 69% vs 54%.
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 213 simulated days the conflict between Germany and Austria ended with: Ceasefire, front frozen (prolonged stalemate). Aggregate personnel losses within the model: 12,043 (Germany) and 3,859 (Austria). 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.