Reasearch? Me? I just deliver the paper to your cyber-driveway every morning.
But Poles are human beings, like us. People everywhere seem to rise to the occasion when something like a brutal military invasion happens. It's the gradual, boil-the-frog-slowly type of takeover that is more likely to see less resistance. Again, like us. As to their ability, I am not familiar with their leadership so I don't know how capably they would organize a response to military attack. One thing I have learned from reading my history over the last year or two is that good leadership is crucial to national defense and the results of leadership - good or bad - have an impact for some time after the leadership has changed.