If it is attacked on one side, it must count on support from the other.

Whether it shall continue to exist as a State and under what conditions must depend on the result of the ensuing war and the consequent political position--factors that lie wholly outside its own sphere of power.
This being the case, the question may well be put whether such a State is politically justified in requiring from its citizens in time of peace the greatest military efforts and correspondingly large pecuniary expenditure.

It will certainly have to share the contest in which it is itself, perhaps, the prize, and theoretically will do best to have the largest possible military force at its disposal.

But there is another aspect of the question which is at least arguable.

The fighting power of such a State may be so small that it counts for nothing in comparison with the millions of a modern army.