How effective has the Polish military been throughout history?

Didn't they completely fail to follow up on that victory with anything?

Which home country. There should be the border between Germany and Russia. Poland is a phantom country like Narnia.

And they fought for the remission of Polish debts at the German Emperor. Probably those came from excessive vodka drinking ...

>Look ma' I posted it again XD

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Wonder who could be behind this post

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Because he promised to give them their state back. Meanwhile the rest of the auxiliaries fought for money at best and because french occupiers told them to at worst.
More like eastern europe, depending on your definition.
And austrian intervention helped turning the deluge around a couple years before. That's what natural allies do, you know.

The truth hurts - you bigosnigger

Relax yourself, Helmut Von sheisse-eater

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This must be a larper. No german I know would even know what bigos is.

He might be that wacky shitlesian from /his/

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WHEN THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVE

Pretty decent sometimes. They almost singlehandedly held back the tide of communism until the Krauts ruined it for everybody by invading. And speaking of the invasion, they did really well against the Krauts until the Soviets got involved.

The moral of the story is, Krauts and commies ruin everything and the Poles at least tried to mitigate some of that.

Average to bad most of the time with a few lucky/brilliant victories in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.

In the middle ages they were basically indistinguishable from most other feudal Euro states militarily. Later the famous winged hussars were fearsome, sure, but that's because they were a relic of a bygone era - small numbers of literal knights and men-at-arms fighting as heavy cavalry. They could sweep larger, cheaper mercenary troops off the field, sure, but they were also very expensive to field, unruly (being organized in private companies funded by the nobility) and undisciplined. Every time Poland got into a protracted war their cavalry force would quickly get depleted through attrition leaving them with only the absolute trash that was the rest of their military to fight off hordes of professionals. Poland was also too decentralized and poor to field effective artillery units or maintain a supply chain.

By the 18th century professional armies had evolved the essence of modern organization and could easily sweep aside the decreasing quality Polish horsemen. They were only able to field small numbers of shitty quality modern troops and were therefore a complete non-issue by the time of the great northern war.

The meme of Polish military prowess is just that, a meme fuelled by patriotic propaganda.

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They only beat the vatniks because Stalin and Tukhachevksy didn't want to work together. And turns out a cavalry army composed of pinko revolutionaries looking for loot and pillage isn't easy to coordinate.

Underrated.

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Pretty good when you throw them in spitfires
Not that any englishman would care

The Poles will always be 100 Xs the soldiers Opie dreams of being

Give Poles a technology equal to opponent's, and they'll be ready to blow him away no matter of his numbers or strategic position.
1939 was a failure for Poles because their army had inferior numbers, tech and geographic location. Their defence plan was based on expected military intervention of France and UK, which never happened.

but once Poles can fight their enemy on equal terms, they always walk out victorious
>Battle of Britain
>Battle of Cassino monastery
>Battle of Ancona
>Battle of Mont Ormel
>Battle of Bologna

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lel

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>le reddit meemz xD

>The Polish Army did not fight German tanks with horse-mounted cavalry wielding lances and swords. In 1939, only 10% of the Polish army was made up of cavalry units.[119] Polish cavalry never charged German tanks or entrenched infantry or artillery, but usually acted as mobile infantry (like dragoons) and reconnaissance units and executed cavalry charges only in rare situations against foot soldiers. Other armies (including German and Soviet) also fielded and extensively used elite horse cavalry units at that time. Polish cavalry consisted of eleven brigades, as emphasized by its military doctrine, equipped with anti tank rifles "UR" and light artillery such as the highly effective Bofors 37 mm anti-tank gun. The myth originated from war correspondents' reports similar to that of the Battle of Krojanty, where a Polish cavalry brigade was fired upon in ambush by hidden armored vehicles, after it had mounted a successful sabre-charge against German infantry. There have also been cases when Polish cavalry dashing between tanks trying to break out of encirclement gave an impression of an attack.[Note 7][120]

My darksouls character is real

That image is stupid. People don't argue that the nazi regime wasn't evil but the Brits and Mericans claimed to be goodies.

It does make sense, since stormfags always cry about how da ebil anglo slaughtered 60 bajillion aryans in Dresden, but always omit Luftwaffe's deliberate terror bombing campaigns on so many European countries.

He said people, not stormfags

Lol

I've never read about the Polish campaign, maybe I should correct that. Striking how's it seems to be similar to early Barbarossa, with the Poles fighting valiantly but being strategically outmatched and then mass surrender.

Pity they didn't have the space (and the State) that the Soviets had.

WHEN THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED