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Germany and the Next War

CHAPTER VII
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It can, accordingly, be roughly calculated what field army can be raised in case of war.

The entire First Ban certainly comes under this head.
In Greece, which does not signify much for a European war, but might in combination with the small Balkan States prove very troublesome to Turkey, and is therefore important for us, an active army of 146,000 men can be put into the field; there are besides this 83,000 men in the Landwehr and 63,000 men in the Landsturm.
Spain has a peace army of 116,232 men, of whom 34,000 are permanently stationed in Africa.

In war she can raise 327,000 men (140,000 active army, 154,000 garrison troops, 33,000 gendarmerie).

The mobilization is so badly organized that at the end of a month 70,000 to 80,000 men could at most be put into the field.
As regards the naval forces of the States which concern us to-day, the accompanying table, which is taken from the _Nauticus_ of 1911, affords a comparative epitome, which applies to May, 1911.

It shows that, numerically, the English fleet is more than double as strong as ours.
This superiority is increased if the displacements and the number of really modern ships are compared.


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