User blog comment:KhanTonto/So you think you know history?/@comment-823840-20150407161513

Any divisions that the Germans, and possibly the Austro-Hungarians, deploy against the Swiss will be wasted away on a perpetual mountain war, and deprive other fronts of precious manpower and resources. As foreshadowed by the other commentators, it isn't too hard to see that this particular method to circumvent French lines might instead result in an earlier, perhaps even costlier, Centralist defeat.