🇩🇪Germanyvs🇩🇰DenmarkMilitary comparison, and what happens if they fight
If Germany attacked Denmark today, with no allies joining on either side, this is what the WARSCAPE engine produced: Side A achieves its objectives after 96 days.
How the two sides compare
Germany keeps 14 times as many soldiers under arms. Germany has 6.7 times the tanks. Germany has 6.1 times the combat aircraft. Germany spends 8.2 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.
GermanyDenmark
179,850Active soldiers13,100
34,100Reservists44,200
295Tanks44
150Artillery20
209Combat aircraft34
250Helicopters30
$121.2bnDefence budget$14.8bn
83.5mPopulation6.0m
What the war cost
Germany
attacked
3,629
soldiers killed or wounded
21
tanks destroyed
33
aircraft lost
+30
areas of land gained
70%
support at home, at the end
Denmark
defended
983
soldiers killed or wounded
3
tanks destroyed
16
aircraft lost
−30
areas of land lost
54%
support at home, at the end
What decided it
01
Deployed combat power helped Germany
Average deployed combat power: 41 vs 7 model units.
02
Mobilisation helped Germany
Reservists mobilised: 123,564 vs 23,367.
03
Air situation helped Germany
Average share of air control for Germany: 76%.
04
Logistics helped Germany
Average front-line supply efficiency: 95% vs 75%.
05
Political cohesion helped Denmark
Average cohesion: 71% vs 75%.
The moments that decided it
DAY 45
København under threat
This moment mattered because momentum shifted durably toward Germany: a deep advance.
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.
After 96 simulated days the conflict between Germany and Denmark ended with: Side A achieves its objectives (capital captured). Aggregate personnel losses within the model: 3,629 (Germany) and 983 (Denmark). The model identified 1 turning point. 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.