Of intrest is what the pre-war Austrian armed forces look like (did you know that Austria was prevented by treaty from fielding missiles of any kind?)
Army: 45,400 (29,600 conscripts)
Standing Alert Force:
1 Mechanized Division of three brigades (1 armd bn, 1 mech bn, 2 SP Arty bns, 2 SP Antitank bns each), with 1 AA bn, 1 engineer bn and 1 signal bn.
Standing Field Units
1 Army HQ
1 reconnaissance bn
2 signal bns
1 Arty bn
1 SP Antitank bn
2 AA bns
1 engineer bn (corps)
1 air-mobile inf bn
2 mountain inf bns
1 guards bn
Cadre Force units (full strength on mobilization)
2 Corps HQ
2 arty bns
2 engineer bns
5 signal bns
3 logistic regiments
9 Regional Commands with 8 mobile brigade HQs; 24 infantry bns, 8 arty bns, 8 engineer/antitank bns, 8 support battalions; 1 territoral command with 28 Landwehrstamm-regimente (training 'bns'); 26 infantry regiments, 40 engineer/antitank companies
Equipment includes
50 M-60A3 MBT
120 M-60A1 MBT
467 Saurer 4K4F APCs
300 M-68 105mm turret-mounted fortress guns
22 SFKM2 155mm fortress guns
108 IFH 105mm towed hows
24 FHM-1 155mm towed hows
56 M-109 SP 155mm hows (42 more on order)
18 M-51 130 MRLs
305 81mm mortars
100 M-2/M-30 107mm mortars
100 120mm mortars
482 20m towed AA guns
75 35mm towed AA guns
60 40mm AA guns
38 M-42 SP AA guns
1,400 74mm, 84mm recoilless rifles
397 106mm recoilless rifles
240 M-52/M-55 85mm towed antitank guns
189 JPz SK Kuerassier 105mm SP antitank guns
Reserves: 197,000 men, another 970,000 have reserve commitments
Air Force: 4,600 (2,400 conscripts); 32 combat aircraft
4 Fighter Ground Attack Squadrons w/32 Saab 105OE
6 helicopter squadrons w/13 AB-206A, 23 AB-212, 23 Alouette III, 12
OH-58B, 21 AB-204
1 Training/liaison squadron w/2 Skyvan, 12 Turbo-Porter, 6 O-1E, 18
Saab 91D, 19 L-19
3 AD Bns w/36 20mm towed AA guns, 18 35mm towed AA guns
souce is the Military Balance 1988/89
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The reason that the American Army does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos, and the American Army practices chaos on a daily basis.
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