Kadra Sił Zbrojnych III Rzeczypospolitej w poglądach przedstawicieli środowisk wojskowych i politycznych Polskiego Państwa Podziemnego

The author comments in his article on the publication entitled “The Armed Forces of the Third Polish Republic. Thoughts and Considerations” which was written in 1943 and is a valuable source of Polish military thought in the time of German occupation. The main idea of the article is to present the questionnaire respondents’ viewpoints on “Polish Armed Forces Spiritual Face”. The presentation was conducted according to approved research postulates, the main aim of which was to answer the question what the Polish Armed Forces' cadre of the Third Polish Republic was to be like. Analysing the opinions in these areas, the author made their synthesis and generalisation. Conclusions drawn from this analysis and included in the final part of the article state that the cadre of the future Polish Army were to be prepared to meet the total war demands and perform the duties of not only waging the war but also preparing the society to the war. They were also to participate in war planning and implementing various military operations’ variants developed in peacetime. The members of professional cadre and reserve corps were supposed to show good professional and general preparation. One of conditions to increase the cadre’s intellectual level was to achieve appropriate educational status to be ensured by well organised education system. Moreover, another cadre’s characteristic should be a high moral attitude. As the armed forces’ avangarde the military cadre should adopt apolitical attitudes in order to prevent breaking the internal homogeneity of the armed forces. Mutual relations between the corps, based on hierarchy and military disciple principles, were to safeguard the armedforces’ internal unity.