Toraach
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Inspired by this thread https://www.alternatehistory.com/fo...-italian-militarys-performance-in-ww2.429797/
The polish military's performance in '39 was bad, I mean really, really bad, I mean on strategic and operational level. Common soldiers and small units often fought bravery, and there were many heroic events. But overall the Polish Army lost badly.
My goal isn't to asking for a polish wank, about how Poland could have defeated Germany and won the War. I want to ask you what there could have been realistically done to making polish defence better, for the polish-german war lasting longer, and forcing Germans to having bigger cassulaties. By realistically I mean, what was avaible in Poland in late 30s, so no giving them heavy tanks, panzerfaust equivalents and jet fighters, or not a total mechanization of the Army.
I don't ask for making the polish military performance in later periods of the War, because polish units weren't fully independent and fought as parts of allied or soviet forces, with their equipment and their tactics under their orders.
I am thinking now about two things. Which they both are relativly easy, and in a case of one of them it isn't even money-depending at all.
1. Giving for the army a proper wireless communication equipment. I don't mean some cool radios on a company level, but in Poland even army commanders and Rydz-Śmigły the commaned in chief, didn't have any good communication between them, which of course severaly hurted performance. Of course there is also a matter of Rydz's escape from Warsaw to Brześć, and later to Zaleszczyki where didn't were any proper telecomunication.
2. A diffrent strategy during the campaign. Instead of armies screaning all borders with Germany, moving them into more defensible and shorter line in the country. Ordering them to dig, and preparing for the defense. Also I read somewhere that the polish inteligence gathered information that the main german attack will be from Silesia in direction of Warsaw, so moving more troops into this area.
At the end I want to admit, that Poland had been lucky in the eve of the war , that Poland avoided barely a totally humilating defeat. The original date for german attack was 26th of August, when Polish troops were less prepared and mobilized than on 1st of September. The total mobilization was called on 30th of August, still to late, but better even two days of a total mobilization, that not at all. If I'm correct french and british goverments pushed the polish goverment to postpone the mobilisation.
The polish military's performance in '39 was bad, I mean really, really bad, I mean on strategic and operational level. Common soldiers and small units often fought bravery, and there were many heroic events. But overall the Polish Army lost badly.
My goal isn't to asking for a polish wank, about how Poland could have defeated Germany and won the War. I want to ask you what there could have been realistically done to making polish defence better, for the polish-german war lasting longer, and forcing Germans to having bigger cassulaties. By realistically I mean, what was avaible in Poland in late 30s, so no giving them heavy tanks, panzerfaust equivalents and jet fighters, or not a total mechanization of the Army.
I don't ask for making the polish military performance in later periods of the War, because polish units weren't fully independent and fought as parts of allied or soviet forces, with their equipment and their tactics under their orders.
I am thinking now about two things. Which they both are relativly easy, and in a case of one of them it isn't even money-depending at all.
1. Giving for the army a proper wireless communication equipment. I don't mean some cool radios on a company level, but in Poland even army commanders and Rydz-Śmigły the commaned in chief, didn't have any good communication between them, which of course severaly hurted performance. Of course there is also a matter of Rydz's escape from Warsaw to Brześć, and later to Zaleszczyki where didn't were any proper telecomunication.
2. A diffrent strategy during the campaign. Instead of armies screaning all borders with Germany, moving them into more defensible and shorter line in the country. Ordering them to dig, and preparing for the defense. Also I read somewhere that the polish inteligence gathered information that the main german attack will be from Silesia in direction of Warsaw, so moving more troops into this area.
At the end I want to admit, that Poland had been lucky in the eve of the war , that Poland avoided barely a totally humilating defeat. The original date for german attack was 26th of August, when Polish troops were less prepared and mobilized than on 1st of September. The total mobilization was called on 30th of August, still to late, but better even two days of a total mobilization, that not at all. If I'm correct french and british goverments pushed the polish goverment to postpone the mobilisation.