How do you conquer this place without nukes?

They have 30 F-18 C/D and 53 F-5 E/F. Their current SAM systems is 50 Rapier towed systems (see pic) and 300 FIM-92 Stinger MANPADs. The Rapier system is rather old for those who do not know.

Basically take the sky and cut their infrastructure. Take parts of it at a time rather then fighting the whole thing at once. France could do it in 2 months tops, the Germans & Italians could in about 3 months.

Destroy all roads and bridges you can. The Swiss might do this for you thinking you intend on sending in land troops (you don't until later). Make sure no one gets in or out, like a siege on a grand scale. Switzerland is like a giant fort so you fight it like a giant fort. This isn't specific to Switzerland really, this can apply to any Siege situation, but an invasion of Switzerland would be a giant siege. Keep bombing it out, more to instill panic among the people. Their citizens will starve and run out of food, and they will surrender. DO NOT ACCEPT THEIR SURRENDER. Wait until they eat each other, resort to cannibalism, revert to a more primitive state amongst your periodic bombing raids. Then, only then ,do you invade. And when you do, leave nothing for what's left of the enemy to try and reclaim. Anything of value is burned, even if it would be useful to you. House? Gone, people can live in those, they might fight to take those back. Art? You better burn that too, art can be worth a lot of money. Farms? Well, if there's anything left at all by then you burn it all and salt the fields, no one will ever farm this land again, much less some remnant who thinks he might be Swiss. And take no prisoners at all. IF they surrender, inform them at the start of the invasion that Surrender is Suicide, and they will be executed if captured. You want to bring out the worst in them, make them into starving animals backed against the wall, truly break them before you deliver the final blow. When you're done, there won't be a Switzerland, just a black spot on the map saying "Wasteland"

Yo man, you seem to dislike the Swiss. Why?

Destroying infrastructure would be beneficial for the swiss as it interferes with the supply lines of an invader with a superior military.
Switzerland's terrain is a pain but it lacks strategic depth so a country like France or Germany could easily occupy the country.

send in as many albanians and balkanites as you can to replace their population

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It's nothing but mountains with all its borders also being mountainous.

People here are armchair generals, to them "cut them off" seems like a very simple act. To actually encircle the entire nation is hard enough but to then have round the clock and effective surveillance and counters to black market and legitimate trade along mountain roads and heavily forested valleys to the point you'll starve them into submission or death?...Not going to happen.

Either way you're eventually sending forces into killzones targeted by people that will very likely not be starving, bombing thousands of effectively invisible bunkers, advancing down narrow cliff side roads with several points of fire a lot of which will likely be indirect and trying to coordinate airstrikes on targets you likely will never have eyes on.

Theoretically there's nothing wrong with the plan. It's just that in reality it would never work.

But they already stopped that from hapening

The best way to invade the Swiss is to put your army inside huge money bags and sign up for a bank account.

Smuggle all their horses and dogs out of the country. They'll starve to submission shortly thereafter.

it was hard to invade them in William Tell's age

nowadays we got fucking jet bombers

Operation Rolling Thunder: Swiss Edition

>to them "cut them off" seems like a very simple act
Because it fucking is. They import 85% of their energy, which is fuck easy to cut off. That alone would basically make the country implode, add roadblocks on every highway and railroad and they'll fall over themselves to surrender.
We're not talking about a fucking middle ages castle fully prepared for months of siege. We're talking about a soft first world nation fully dependent upon international trade for survival.

didn't based Napoleon conquer them or something among those lines? I remember reading about it in some book about him, but Switzerland, tbqh, has always been a footnote in history

It wasn't a footnote in the middle ages, but by Napoleon's time they were definitely too small to matter, militarily speaking.
Napoleon basically knocked at their door, they saw overwhelming force, and they surrendered. Which is pretty much what would happen nowadays if France threatened them and nobody were willing to back the swiss.

>How can there be a Geneva convention when there is no Geneva
I like the way you think

You can't. They handle everyone else's money, so they're under the protection of the entire world

You don't

Just walk in from the French side of the border, and roll through the Swiss plateau unopposed. GG you've just captured all the major cities.

Literally just walk in, there are like 11 people in the whole country and forts dont work anymore

>To actually encircle the entire nation is hard enough but to then have round the clock and effective surveillance

Hello from /k, it looks like you have not been keeping up with modern efforts to improve surveillance. It really starts in the early 1970s for both NATO and Warsaw Pact. For NATO it was because of the American experience in Vietnam and for Warsaw Pact ... it was the possibility of having to invade Switzerland if it did not really hold true to its neutrality in the event of a full face war in Europe. In part aways.

By late 1974 they (USSR) believed that had mostly fixed the issues they face if they invaded Switzerland via its northeast area. Their plan used a lot of man power but no nukes and only a limited amount of land mines in order to keep the low land roads open.

Now days that level of manpower would not be needed. There is very helpful tools like...

>SPEXER 2000
businessinsider.com/saudi-arabia-is-building-a-600-mile-great-wall-to-shield-from-isis-2015-1
>Thermal sights that can see for 3.5 km
>Drones
>Squad level radios

LOIC

Checkmate Swiss

>Haha give your enemy nothing to lose so they suicide bomb your troops and torture your officers to death every possible chance
>if they get their hands on any kind of advanced arms from you, they will actually try to genocide your population
This is the dumbest shit I've ever heard.