Radetzky the Reformer

[wiking]

What if Joseph Radetzky von Radetzky had gotten his wish and managed to reform the Austro-Hungarian army in the wake of the Napoleonic wars? Could this approach had become institutionalized like Scharnhost with Prussia? What could be expected from the dual-monarchy after 1815?

[Thande]

If I can briefly expand my constitutional pedantry from Britain to the Continent, it wasn't Austro-Hungarian and nor was it a dual monarchy.

[robertp6165]

Originally Posted by wiking

What if Joseph Radetzky von Radetzky had gotten his wish and managed to reform the Austro-Hungarian army in the wake of the Napoleonic wars? Could this approach had become institutionalized like Scharnhost with Prussia? What could be expected from the dual-monarchy after 1815?

Well, it depends on what type of reforms would he put in place? Do they have the effect of making the Austrian army more effective, or less so?

IF the Austrian army is rendered more effective by the reforms, then possibly they do better in the 1866 war, stunting the rise of Prussia to supremacy in Germany.