For the country, the biggest role of the military is to defend the country when the country encounters danger, so many small and medium-sized countries have built a huge army to ensure the security of the country. But in the history of the world, there are also countries, even if they build a huge army, they can not keep the country. The most typical country below is the only European country with a huge army, but it can never defend its territory, and the country will perish in the future.
This country is Poland, Poland is a big country in Europe, whether it is land area, or the number of people, is one of the largest countries in Europe, until now there are more than 320,000 square kilometers of land, nearly 40 million people. And historically, Poland was also very powerful, especially during the Polish-Lithuanian Empire. Even Russia and the surrounding powers crawled at the feet of Poland. In modern times, Poland has maintained a large military presence.
During World War I, the domestic army exceeded 600,000, and during World War II, 1.2 million troops were established, and even now, the Polish regular army has 300,000, plus the reserve, which is nearly 800,000 troops, so the scale is also very strong. It is reasonable to say that such a large army can effectively protect its own land and country from invasion. But the result was the opposite, and Poland was not only unable to control its own destiny, but also unable to protect its own territory.
Its huge army, under the blows of Russia, Germany, France and other European powers, basically every time is the greatest destruction, so the land is directly divided four times, and the whole country is destroyed several times. Especially during World War II, Poland's 1.2 million troops, under the blows of the Soviet Union and Germany, collapsed in an instant, and eventually the country was divided in two by the Soviet Union and Germany, completely divided.
Many people do not understand why Poland has so many troops that it cannot defend the country. In fact, the reason is very simple, mainly because the polish territory is a flat river, it is an endless plain, basically in the face of invasion, it is no danger to defend, so how many troops, can not defend this land. So Poland has a huge sense of crisis until now, always feeling that when it will be destroyed. So now we are basically adopting a strategy of relying on the West and confronting Russia.
To this end, military preparations have been continuously strengthened, but in fact, it can be seen that the Polish state will be directly destroyed sooner or later, because it will walk a tightrope between NATO and Russia, and once the war comes, then Poland will die without a place to die, so it will still perish. This is also the biggest tragedy in Poland, no matter what army, no matter how many troops, can not do, can not protect their own security, this is also the most helpless place. What do you readers think about this? Welcome to leave a message and discuss with the editor!
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Reference: Modern and Contemporary World History.