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Old 08-20-2023, 03:03 PM
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Interesting takes, gentlemen. Thank you.

Although it could be mere coincidence that both the PFC and US XI Corps are located in NW Poland in late 2000, I've always felt that there must some sort of direct relationship between the two "factions"- largely amicable, being as, at the very least, they have a common Soviet enemy. It seems substantially more than coincidence that the only corps-sized NATO formation still on Polish soil as 2000 nears an end shares the same corner of the country as the PFC and its new, former-Polish army corps-strength formation (Polish 1st Tank Army). That whole situation is ripe for strategy-level political and military intrigue, IMHO.

What do y'all use as the PFC's symbol? Poland's used more or less the same flag since achieving national independence. It strikes me as somewhat delegitimizing to change it during WWIII. At the same time, using the same national flag as the pro-Soviet, communist Lublin regime would cause considerable confusion.

In keeping with the idea that the PFC is a direct descendant of the Polish government-in-exile of the WW2 era, they might re-adopt the Kotwica (anchor) symbol of the Polish Home Army (see image).

What would military units loyal to the PFC use for battlefield recognition purposes? Since the PFC-affiliated units that we've so far identified were once parts of the Polish Army (some as recently as a couple of months prior to Autumn, 2000), they'd be kitted out in a very similar, if not identical fashion, as pro-Lublin Polish forces, so a distinct recognition symbol of some sort would be an absolute necessity.
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