Introduction

The Polish military that would meet the German invasion in 1939 was not a backward thinking poorly equipped military by the standards of Europe at this time. There had been a large amount of investment made to try and equip the army and air force with the best military equipment available, but there were limits to what a smaller nation like Poland could do. It would be the limit on resources and not incorrect assumptions about how the war would be fought that would be the greatest problem for the Polish forces in September 1939. This episode will evolve around how that military was prepared, first looking at the military budgets of the 1930s then moving into a discussion of the equipment that the money would be used to purchase before closing out