Austro-Hungarian Army

The Austro-Hungarian Army, also known as the Imperial and Royal Army, was the principal ground force of Austria-Hungary from 1867 to 1918. It was made up of three organisations: the Common Army, recruited from all parts of the monarchy, the Imperial-Royal Landwehr recruited in the Austrian half, and the Royal Hungarian Honved with the Royal Croatian Home Guard, recruited in the Hungarian half. It was brought into being by the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 and ceased to exist when Austria-Hungary was dissolved in 1918 after the end of World War I. Its Common Army units were often poorly trained and equipped, because each half of the empire preferred to fund its own units, and its white infantry uniforms gave way to dark blue and then to cadet grey and field gray in the First World War.