Conspiracy Theory in Film, Television, and Politics, new from Praeger Publishers. 
In a world of conflict and insecurity, one recent invasion is making the rounds as an amusing news oddity. It seems that a unit of Switzerland’s military accidentally invaded of Liechtenstein, the minuscule neighboring state that has no standing army of its own. The story appears to involve a wrong turn, literally and metaphorically in this case, in which the Swiss soldiers wandered across the international border. (Click here to read the story in USA Today.)
When the Swiss soldiers realized their mistake, they returned to their side of the border without incident. The soldiers had guns, but not ammunition, and so the danger of was slight.
Authorities in Liechtenstein are not making much of the incident. An official with the Interior Ministry suggested it wasn’t a bid deal, saying “It’s not like they stormed over here with attack helicopters or something.”
USA Today has a comment on its web-site that compares the incident to the old Peter Sellers movie The Mouse That Roared, a 1959 comedy in which a tiny principality declares war on the U.S. with the sole purpose of losing in order to receive foreign aid upon surrender. In the story, two dozen soldiers with bows and arrows go to New York to launch their faux war. This provides ample opportunity for Mr. Sellers, better known for his performances in the Pink Panther series, to engage in many absurdities and slapstick mishaps. The movie met with enough financial success that a sequel, The Mouse on the Moon, was issued in 1963. (Sellers did not appear in the latter production.)
