Editing Home Army (section)

===Size===
In February 1942, when the Home Army was formed from the Armed Resistance, it numbered around 100,000 members.<ref name="Enc. WIEM: AK" /> Less than a year later, at the start of 1943, it had reached a strength of around 200,000.<ref name="Enc. WIEM: AK" /> In the summer of 1944, when [[Operation Tempest]] began, the Home Army reached its highest membership:<ref name="Enc. WIEM: AK" /> estimates of membership in the first half and summer of 1944 range from 200,000,{{r|Leslie|p=234}} through 300,000,<ref name="Embassy PR 2006" /> 380,000<ref name="Enc. WIEM: AK" /> and 400,000<ref name="Laqueur 2019">{{cite book |last=Laqueur |first=Walter |title=Guerrilla: A Historical and Critical Study |publisher=Routledge |year=2019 |isbn=978-0-429-69636-7 |location=Milton |chapter=5. The Twentieth Century (II): Partisans against Hitler |oclc=1090493874}}</ref> to 450,000–500,000,<ref name="Salm 1994" /> though most estimates average at about 400,000; the strength estimates vary due to the constant integration of other resistance organisations into the Home Army, and that while the number of members was high and that of sympathizers was even higher, the number of armed members participating in operations at any given time was smaller—as little as one per cent in 1943, and as many as five to ten per cent in 1944<ref name="Laqueur 2019" />—due to an insufficient number of weapons.<ref name="Enc. WIEM: AK" /><ref name="Laqueur" />{{r|Leslie|p=234}}

Home Army numbers in 1944 included a cadre of over 10,000–11,000 officers, 7,500 officers-in-training (singular: ''[[podchorąży]]'') and 88,000 [[non-commissioned officer]]s (NCOs).<ref name="Enc. WIEM: AK"/> The officer cadre was formed from prewar officers and NCOs, graduates of underground courses, and elite operatives usually parachuted in from the West (the [[Silent Unseen]]).<ref name="Enc. WIEM: AK"/> The basic organizational unit was the platoon, numbering 35–50 people, with an unmobilized skeleton version of 16–25; in February 1944, the Home Army had 6,287 regular and 2,613 skeleton platoons operational.<ref name="Enc. WIEM: AK"/> Such numbers made the Home Army not only the largest Polish resistance movement, but one of the two largest in World War II Europe.{{efn|name=a}} Casualties during the war are estimated at 34,000<ref name="Embassy PR 2006"/> to 100,000,<ref name="Enc. WIEM: AK"/> plus some 20,000<ref name="Embassy PR 2006"/>–50,000<ref name="Enc. WIEM: AK"/> after the war (casualties and imprisonment).