Country without an army

Country without an army

          

          A country without an army is hard to imagine, but there is one such country and it is called Liechtenstein. There are many reasons why a country will abolish their army. This included that a country might have another country protecting it, the country don't want or doesn't have the money to finance the army, or that no one dares to attack the country. For Liechtenstein the reason is that they see maintaining an army is way too expensive. Other reason also causes the government in Liechtenstein deter the idea of maintaining an army. First of all no country would really want to takeover Liechtenstein. Liechtenstein is a small principality the geographically located in the Alps. Liechtenstein is not both strategically important and there is no major resource output there. The other reason is that Liechtenstein is like Monaco, it is a micro nation where that if other Europe country wanted to absorb it is actually a waste of money. This is because after a country attacks Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein's tiny economy can’t generate a satisfying amount of money to their "conquerer" country which should be hundreds of times bigger the Liechtenstein (even though Liechtenstein have a high GDP this is due to the population is less then 40,000 people and the economy mostly focused on small business). This is the reason why Liechtenstein doesn’t need an army. Liechtenstein has a rule that stated an army can be re-activate if a country attacks them. But so far no country has attacks Liechtenstein. Liechtenstein has its own police/swat team to maintain internal peace, but no army. In conclusion, with a reasons such as, geographically, strategically, and economy "unimportant" country, Liechtenstein doesn’t need an army to defend from curios attacker.