Editing Second Polish Republic (section)

===Military===
[[File:PZL-37 Los.jpg|thumb|right|The [[PZL.37 Łoś]] was a Polish twin-engine [[medium bomber]].]]

Interwar Poland had a large army of 270,000 soldiers on active duty: in 37 infantry divisions, 11 cavalry brigades, and two armored brigades, plus artillery units. Another 700,000 men served in the reserves. At the outbreak of the war, the Polish Army was able to put in the field almost one million soldiers, 4,300 guns, around 1,000 armored vehicles including in between 200 and 300 tanks (the majority of the armored vehicles were outclassed [[tankette]]s) and 745 aircraft (however, only around 450 of them were bombers and fighters available to fight as of 1 September 1939).<ref name="Williamson2011">{{cite book |author=David G. Williamson |title=Poland Betrayed: The Nazi-Soviet Invasions of 1939 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wtg8a-0ggkEC&pg=PA21 |year=2011 |publisher=Stackpole Books |page=21 |isbn=978-0-8117-0828-9 |access-date=11 October 2015 |archive-date=1 May 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160501200550/https://books.google.com/books?id=wtg8a-0ggkEC&pg=PA21 |url-status=live }}</ref>

The training of the [[History of the Polish Army|Polish Army]] was thorough. The [[non-commissioned officer]]s were a competent body of men with expert knowledge and high ideals. The officers, both senior and junior, constantly refreshed their training in the field and in the lecture hall, where modern technical achievement and the lessons of contemporary wars were demonstrated and discussed. The equipment of the Polish Army was less developed technically than that of [[Nazi Germany]] and its rearmament was slowed by confidence in Western European military support and by budget difficulties.<ref>Walter M. Drzewieniecki, "[https://www.jstor.org/stable/25777834 The Polish Army on the Eve of World War II]", ''Polish Review'' (1981) 26#3 pp 54–64. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170204113132/https://www.jstor.org/stable/25777834 |date=4 February 2017 }}.</ref> The Polish command system at the level of the entire Polish military and the armies was obsolete. The generals in command of armies had to ask permission from the high command. The Polish military attempted to organize fronts made of [[army group]]s only when it was already too late during the Polish Defensive War in 1939.