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Originally Posted by chico20854
I imagine that the Polish Free Congress would have two kinds of units under it's control: 1) units composed of exiles (or 2nd generation exiles that were fluent in Polish) that are trained/equipped by "parent" NATO armies and 2) entire Polish Army (and Border Guard) units that switched sides. Those units would largely maintain their organization/chain of command/equipment, vs the first type which would essentially be ethnic/national formations within their "parent" army.
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I'd always imagined that the PFC was more of a partisan organization than a proper army- to use a WW2 comparison, more along the lines of Warsaw's
Home Army than the
Polish Armed Forces in the West. I could be wrong about that, though. AFAIK, canon isn't very clear on the subject. I'd like to know more about the relationship between the PFC and NATO, especially regarding CnC and logistics.
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Originally Posted by chico20854
The advantage of integrating individual deserters/exiles into a NATO unit is that there is little chance of the whole mass going back over and that the integration burden is relatively light, IF the deserter is able to communicate with the rest of his new unit. If he can't, then he's pretty useless...
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True, but I think you'd lose something too- the sense of shared purpose and any sort of comradery
esprit de corps that would probably come from serving alongside one's countrymen. And the risk of double-defection, I imagine, would be pretty low. Historically, the Soviets have been very hard on any perceived/suspected disloyalty. During WW2, just getting captured and becoming a POW of the Germans was usually enough to get a "liberated" or escaped Red Army soldier sent straight to the Gulags (or a mass grave).
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