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Let's talk about the POLISH ARMY [64]
Getting in border squabbles with the Czechs, Ukys, etc.
There was no such country as Ukraine at that time.
Minor countries wants to improve their living so they join in a coalition to partition Poland
Are you serious?I'd like to see them trying at least we would get back Wilno,Lwow and few other polish towns.
Poland just didn't have the money - and they had a long, long border with hostile neighbours.
It was not that bad,but money were spent not the best way (fleet instead of land forces).Besides even with the money Poland could not buy stuff we wanted to e.g french aircraft engines.They just did not want to sell them.Sadly relations with Czechoslovakia were not good at all at that time.
WW1 aircraft would have been absolutely useless against blitzkrieg.
Agree.Btw. contrary to popular belief about backwardness of Polish army PAF was the only airforce in the world with no bi planes in service.
Yes, but what money they did have they imported too much
True up to some point but on the other hand Poland ordered modern weapons too late (Hurricane's,french tanks R35 or italian hydroplans Cant Z) .Should have never bought 2 large deep ocean capable submarines from Holland,4 destroyers from England and France or large mine layer (the size of a small cruiser).BUT the bad decision was to EXPORT better planes (PZL P24 ) than PAF was using (PZL P7 and P11) to Greece (Greeks shot down many italian planes with P24s),Turkey,Bulgaria and Romania.Another plane EXPORTED to Romania and Bulgaria was modern bomber PZL P37.The export of these planes was suppose to pay for the development of new generation planes which were to enter service in 1940/41(this is why PAF skipped P24).
Yes it was more easily defensible but so was Austria and Austria capitulated.
Austria capitulated?Austria joined Germany.Czechoslovakia capitulated after they were forced by western cowards to give up their defensive positions in Sudeten Mountains and the Czechs had quite modern army at that time.
having soldiers that have fought against the Afghans is better than sending troops into action that have never been under real enemy fire
I beg to differ.Do Talibs have any artillery?How many tactical missiles do they have?Airforce?Tanks?IFV's?Never been shot at but I am pretty sure it does make a difference what the enemy is shooting from.
