Polish Land Forces

The Polish Land Forces, Wojska Lądowe in Polish, are the ground forces of the Polish Armed Forces and contain some 110,000 active personnel. They form many components of the European Union and NATO deployments around the world. Poland's recorded military history stretches back to the tenth century, but the modern army was formed after the country regained independence in 1918. It took part in the Polish-Soviet War of 1919 to 1921 and in the smaller Polish-Ukrainian and Polish-Lithuanian conflicts, was overrun by the German and Soviet invasions of 1939, and was rebuilt after 1945 in the form that later became part of the Warsaw Pact. Polish land forces also served in the Second World War both under the Allied banner and as partisans of the Home Army.