 They were disappointed by the new regime's lack of socialistic direction and its failure to provide the lavish patronage they had expected.Furthermore, Röhm and his SA colleagues thought of their force as the core of the future German Army, and saw themselves as replacing the "Reichswehr" and its established professional officer corps.By then, the SA had swollen to over three million men, dwarfing the "Reichswehr", which was limited to 100,000 men by the Treaty of Versailles.