The Polish Armed Forces (Polish: Polska Siła Zbrojna, German: Polnische Wehrmacht) was a military formation created during World War I. It was created...

The Armed Forces of the Republic of Poland (Polish: Siły Zbrojne Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej, pronounced [ˈɕiwɨ ˈzbrɔjnɛ ʐɛt͡ʂpɔsˈpɔlitɛj ˈpɔlskʲɛj]; abbreviated...

Polish Armed Forces (Polish: Wojsko Polskie) were the armed forces of the Second Polish Republic from 1919 until the demise of independent Poland at the...

Soviet Armed Forces, also known as the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union, the Red Army (1918–1946) and the Soviet Army (1946–1991), were the armed forces of...

The Polish Air Force (Polish: Siły Powietrzne, lit. 'Air Forces') is the aerial warfare branch of the Polish Armed Forces. Until July 2004 it was officially...

Armed Forces. It is the central organ of the military command of the Armed Forces Administration and oversees operational command of the armed forces...

although it can be used to refer to earlier formations as well. Polish Armed Forces consist of the Army (Wojsko Lądowe), Navy (Marynarka) and Air Force...

In December 1918, after the Directorate's coming to power, the army reached its peak at an estimated 100,000 recruits. These armed forces proved to be...

Volunteer Army, and Second Polish Republic forces. They struggled for control of Ukraine after the February Revolution of 1917. The war ensued soon after...

Polish General Staff, formally known as the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces (Polish: Sztab Generalny Wojska Polskiego) is the highest professional...

their lineage to 1917, while the modern armed forces were formed again in 1991. The Armed Forces of Ukraine are the fifth largest armed force in the world...

active on 14 January 1917. It was subsequently transformed between 7 October 1918 and 22 November 1918 into the independent Second Polish Republic, the customary...

An Armed Forces Day, alongside its branch-specific variants often referred to as Army or Soldier's Day, Navy or Sailor's Day, and Air Force or Aviator's...

newly independent Polish state Jan Kucharzewski (November 26, 1917 – February 27, 1918) Antoni Ponikowski (February 27 – April 3, 1918) Jan Kanty Steczkowski...

Polish Armed Forces in the East (Polish: Polskie Siły Zbrojne na Wschodzie, Russian: Вооруженные силы Польши на Востоке) around World War I is a term...

The Polish–Ukrainian War, from November 1918 to July 1919, was a conflict between the Second Polish Republic and Ukrainian forces (both the West Ukrainian...

1st Polish Corps in Russia (Polish: I Korpus Polski w Rosji; Russian: 1-й Польский корпус) was a military formation formed on 24 July 1917 in Minsk from...

Armed Forces of Ukraine. They were formed from Ukrainian units of the Soviet Army after Ukrainian independence, and trace their ancestry to the 1917–22...

formations on the Polish side was the First Polish Army. In early 1918, Lenin and Leon Trotsky embarked on the rebuilding of the Russian armed forces. The new...

Austro-Hungarian Armed Forces (German: Bewaffnete Macht or Wehrmacht; Hungarian: Fegyveres Erő) or Imperial and Royal Armed Forces were the military forces of Austria-Hungary...

Western Allies, contributed to the Polish forces defeat by 6 October 1939. A popular myth is that Polish cavalry armed with lances charged German tanks...

The Revolutions of 1917–1923 were a revolutionary wave that included political unrest and armed revolts around the world inspired by the success of the...

1886 – 2 December 1941) was a Polish politician, statesman, Marshal of Poland and Commander-in-Chief of Poland's armed forces, as well as a painter and poet...

differences) is in the title of the armed forces of certain countries and territories. Ambazonia Defence Forces Antigua and Barbuda Defence Force Australian...

Spring 1920 – Autumn 1921: Polish–Soviet War (Treaty of Warsaw), Russian Civil War (between Bolshevik armies and the Armed Forces of South Russia), Ukrainian...

these left over forces throughout 1917, there was no effective Russian military force in the region by the end of 1917 . At the turn of 1918, the Allied Powers...

Anders' Army was the informal yet common name of the Polish Armed Forces in the East in the 1941–42 period, in recognition of its commander Władysław...

between 1917 and 1919 because of hunger and from diseases, which included cholera, plague and typhus, as well as influenza stemming from the 1918 flu pandemic...

appear in the oldest Polish chronicle, Gesta principum Polonorum from the early 12th century. After the German conquest of Poland, a Polish government-in-exile...

1917, and in mostly completed by the beginning of the German offensive along the entire front on February 18, 1918. The period from November 1917 to...