Though sparsely covered in the Swiss press, the story of Switzerland accidently invading the Principality of Liechtenstein is old news in the blogosphere. On March 2nd, 170 infantry recruits lost their way in the night and walked several kilometers into the territory of their neighboring country. Liechtenstein is just 25 kilometers long by 12 kilometers wide, so the Swiss army managed to conquer a sizeable portion of the principalilty before realizing that something was amiss and turning back. Asked how this incident could have happened, one recruited matter-of-factly explained “Es war alles so dunkel dort” (”Everything was just so dark out there”).

According to the Liechtensteiner Vaterland, the invasion took place somewhere in the southern part of the principality near the town Fläsch. I took the liberty of drawing a possible invasion route.