AHC: More resilient Poland in WWII

It seems that the only way that the right decisions could have been made was if Pilsudski lived longer, and if he was a fan of the air force and himself aviator who knew something of airplanes. He had the charisma and the political power to force through a program, keep it protected from politics and well watered with funds. But he was a cavalry man. The man who was in charge of the air force had no backing and could not penetrate the policy wall which limited the funding he could get.
 
I wonder, someone mentioend earlier the Soviets coming in from the East, as making it absolutely impossible for Poland to actually hold back the Germans, as they were being eaten away at from behind.

Stalin's very cautious and opportunistic nature. Given that, and coupled with the fact that (as I recall) he didn't even send the order for the first Soviet troops to cross the Polish border until nearly two weeks after the Germans did so, would he still send his men across? Especially if the Polish army actually follows the Anglo-French advisers' advice and set up a line just east of the Vistula as the main point of contact between the German and Polish forces, instead of letting political and nationalistic concerns trump (what on paper appears to be) sound military strategy?
 
To do this, you basically need to make the Polish Air Force more powerful and effective. Poland lies exposed on the flat ground of the northern European plain. It has no natural defenses which can protect ground forces from enemy air power and force enemy to have go fight in an inferior position.


Blitzkrieg worked so effectively in Poland because the Luftwaffe was able to soften up Polish defenses from the air, so by the time the Wehrmacht came rolling in, the Poles had already been devastated.


If the Poles could have prevented the Luftwaffe from establishing total command of the air, the Polish Army may have held out for significantly longer. To do this, they would need a sizable air force with well-trained pilots, and lots of anti-aircraft weaponry with highly skilled gunners.

Once the Germans began losing aircraft at an intolerable rate, they would have had to modify their tactics and start using less air power, so the fighting would largely be conducted by ground troops. Without air power to help them, German casualties would have been heavier and their advance slower. No massive carpet bombings of cities means that they will have to lay siege and fight it out street by street, and take days to secure one city.
 
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