I swear to God this is from NYT, not the Onion

Swiss Accidentally Invade Liechtenstein
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 8:43 a.m. ET

ZURICH, Switzerland (AP) -- What began as a routine training exercise
almost ended in an embarrassing diplomatic incident after a company of
Swiss soldiers got lost at night and marched into neighboring
Liechtenstein.

According to Swiss daily Blick, the 170 infantry soldiers wandered 2
kilometers (1.2 miles) across an unmarked border into the tiny
principality early Thursday before realizing their mistake and turning
back.

A spokesman for the Swiss army confirmed the story but said that there
were unlikely to be any serious repercussions for the mistaken
invasion.

''We've spoken to the authorities in Liechtenstein and it's not a
problem,'' Daniel Reist told The Associated Press.

Officials in Liechtenstein also played down the incident.

Interior ministry spokesman Markus Amman said nobody in Liechtenstein
had even noticed the soldiers, who were carrying assault rifles but no
ammunition. ''It's not like they stormed over here with attack
helicopters or something,'' he said.

Liechtenstein, which has about 34,000 inhabitants and is slightly
smaller than Washington DC, doesn't have an army.