Problem mobilizacji przemysłu wojennego w Polsce w latach 1921-1926

The First World War experiences and also forecast common character of future armed fighting caused the necessity to pay a special attention to engaging national economy for war production. The military authorities undertook serious planning in this area resulted in many achievements such as Ordre de Bataille of detailed war industry, including at the beginning of 1926 almost 200 private companies, military ones and general Ordre de Bataille excluding, embracing about 500 production works that had guaranteed „reliefs from the military in case of mobilisation to advertise their employees”. A number of initiatives conducted by the military authorities, however, could not be implemented due to the lack of legal solutions, standards and laws, which would allow to grasp the war industry mobilisation problem as an enity. A weak point of the developed in the early twenties war industry mobilisation plan was to base it on war materiel demand, exceeding greatly Polish Industry production possibilities.