Editing Hungarian Defence Forces (section)

==== World War I ====
{{Main|Royal Hungarian Landwehr}}
{{See also|Hungary in World War I}}
Hungarian soldiers "fought with distinction" on every front contested by Austria-Hungary in the [[First World War]].{{sfn|Rothenburg|1976|p=136}} Honvédség units (along with the [[Austrian Landwehr]]) were considered fit for front line combat service and equal to those of the joint forces K.U.K. army.{{sfn|Rothenburg|1976|p=173}} They saw combat especially on the [[Eastern Front (World War I)|Eastern Front]] and at the [[Battles of the Isonzo]] on the [[Italian Campaign (World War I)|Italian Front]]. Out of the eight million men mobilized by Austria-Hungary, over one million died. Hungarians as a national group were second only to German Austrians in their share of this burden, experiencing twenty-eight war deaths for every thousand persons.{{sfn|Rothenburg|1976|p=218}}

After the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian empire in late 1918, the [[Hungarian Red Army|Red Army]] of the Hungarian communist state ([[Hungarian Soviet Republic]]) conducted successful campaigns to protect the country's borders.  However, in the [[Hungarian–Romanian War of 1919]] Hungary came under occupation by the [[Kingdom of Romania|Romanian]], [[Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes|Serbian]], [[United States|American]], and [[French Third Republic|French]] troops, as after four years of extensive fighting, the country lacked both the necessary manpower and equipment to fend off foreign invaders.

In accordance with the [[Treaty of Bucharest (1918)|Treaty of Bucharest]], upon leaving, the [[Romanian army]] took substantial compensation for reparations. This included agricultural goods and industrial machinery as well as raw materials.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://epa.niif.hu/00700/00775/00014/109-113.html|title=Magyar Tudomny 2000. janur|access-date=23 December 2014}}</ref> The [[Trianon peace treaty|Trianon Treaty]] limited the [[Royal Hungarian Army|Hungarian National Army]] to 35,000 men and forbade conscription. The army was forbidden to possess tanks, heavy armor, or an air force.