In 2016, the Swiss Federal Assembly voted to further reduce the army from 140,000 men to 100,000 men, reducing the time of basic training from 21 weeks to 18, but also to increase the military budget by 2.4 billion Swiss francs.
2016. godine Federalna skupština Švicarske izglasala je dodanto reduciranje vojnog osoblja, s 140 000 na 100 000, skraćivanje trajanja osnovne vojne obuke s 21 na 18 tjedana.