Netherlands wants to more than double military personnel by 2030

The dutch have had this like a decade ago, when funding was even worse.

The Dutch military is incorporated into the Bundeswehr.

I've always thought, this was a German thing.

They’ll have to yell „Peng! Peng!” instead of actually firing their guns to save on munition, though.

Okay so that would make it 4 people. Great going.

For reference: 200.000 is the target size of the German army. The Netherlands have a population of 18.000.000, so the standing army is supposed become 1.1% of the population.

The dutch target size corresponds to about the same size as the Russian army relative to its population size. (1.5 Million active for 146 Million population)

Hup Holland!