Liability to serve lasts twelve years, leaving out of account service in the Landsturm.

Deducting the three years of active service, this gives a total of 1,215,000, or, after the natural decrease by 25 per cent., 911,250 men.

To this must be added the nine yearly batches of trained Landsturm, which, after the same deductions, will come likewise to 911,250.

The addition of the peace strength of the army will produce a grand total of 2,184,053 men on a war footing; approximately as many as Russia, after all deductions, can bring into the field in Europe.
In what numbers the existing soldiers would in case of war be available for field formations in Germany and Austria is not known, and it would be undesirable to state.

It depends partly on the forces available, partly on other circumstances winch are not open to public discussion.
However high our estimate of the new formations may be, we shall never reach the figures which the combined forces of France and Russia present.