Ku modernizacji kawalerii. Prace teoretyczne i studia Kawaleryjskiej Sekcji Naukowej Towarzystwa Wiedzy Wojskowej

Abstract

The role and significance of the Military Knowledge Society (TWW), and more specifically its Cavalry Research Section, have not been discussed yet by anyone but the author of this article. Historians and hobbyists dealing with the history of the Polish cavalry are still unaware of the impact that the cavalry subdivision of the TWW had on the development of this service arm. Its position was raised so high primarily thanks to Certified Colonel Jan Karcz, who made sure that the troubles of the Polish cavalry became the subject of discussions among prominent – due to their degrees, positions, functions, but also experience and theoretical research achievements – officers coming from this service arm. In this respect, Karcz was a visionary who believed that the intellectual achievements of cavalry officers, which were presented in military periodicals, could be used much more efficiently within the quasi-advisory body of the Cavalry Department. I shall even put forward the hypothesis that that no other service arm commander or chief of service in the Polish Army has used the possibilities offered by the research sections of TWW to such an extent as Karcz did as head of the Cavalry Department of the Ministry of Military Affairs