Daily media review of the safety and defense sector.
Marek Kozubal: Rzeczpospolita: “Full mobilization during the war”
“The Polish Armed Forces have 550 thousand soldiers, including over 300,000 reservists. However, it is not known what units they will go to in the event of mobilization. Information about the size of the army was provided by General Wiesław Kukuła, Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Army.
This number covers all soldiers of the Polish Armed Forces – over 206 thousand. professional soldiers and Territorial Defense Forces as well as the so -called Reservists’ resource, “who can be called to serve in the event of a crisis,” informs the General Staff of the Polish Army. Gen. prof. Stanisław Koziej, former head of the BBN, points out that it is not known how the army can use reserve resources, i.e. over 300,000 people.
We do not have reserve formations at all: divisions or brigades. So where would these reserves be absorbed in the event of mobilization? Speak General Koziej. Meanwhile, the Ministry of National Defense explains that information on the formation of elements of reserve structures is covered by a classifiedness clause and cannot be made public.
polskieradio.pl: “State arms companies open to cooperation with the private industry”
“State arms companies open to cooperation with the private industry. After years of moving away from military contracts, private companies have come for a new opening – the participants of the Polish arms industry forum announce.
The meeting organized for the first time by the Polish Armaments Group attracted over eight hundred participants. One of the issues raised by the participants of the meeting was the war in Ukraine and drawing conclusions from it.
Advisor of the head of the Ministry of National Defense General Mieczysław Bieniek assessed that today the most current are issues that concern the strengthening of Polish and European defense potential. General Bieniek reminded that what the American administration has recently says to Europe, causes the Old Continent to wake up and begins to see the need to invest in reinforcement.
Wicezef Mon Stanisław Zabiątek added during the opening panel that Europe must quickly wake up from many years of lethargy. A strategy is created in the defense ministry to facilitate quick investments in defense projects. A law in this matter is to be ready within a week.
This is an inter -ministerial document also consulted with the Ministry of State Asset. This ministry oversees the majority of Polish public arms companies. The Polish Armaments Group declares that the fastest coopration with the private industry may enter the area of components.
It comes, among others for military vehicles offered by Jelcz. Commercial companies can successfully perform driving parts for this company’s vehicles. “
Tomasz Wawak: Gazeta Wyborcza: “That the medicine would not hurt us”
“How to guarantee that the expanded European armies will not be used once for a purpose other than the one that guides today’s leaders? (…)
Europe begins to wake up from sleep. There are proposals for independent Europeans’ actions for the security of the continent, such as the offer of nuclear forces submitted by Paris in Germany and the nuclear umbrella embrace Europe (…)
It is clear that it will not be without building European security architecture. The idea of creating a political military organization on the Old Continent already appeared in the 1950s. The idea of military and political integration outside the NATO structures, whose advocate was primarily France, returned many times, but he never lived to fully realize.
There were two main obstacles: contradictory interests of European countries and the military presence of the United States in this part of the world. Now the concept is coming back. The US is not going to continue to cover 70 percent. NATO defense expenses.
Meanwhile, Russia’s goals and demands towards the West are obvious. They are not limited to Ukraine, but cover the entire area of Central Europe. Their implementation would undermine the sense of the existence of the EU in its current shape, and the effects on national security, political relations within the Union (…) could lead to its permanent division and then breakup.
However, the Union has problems with efficient decision making. In recent years, countries such as Hungary and Slovakia have slowed down the adoption of further assistance packages for Ukraine and sanctions against Russia. It is hard to imagine that politicians like Orban or Fica would agree to steps to create a European army, which aims to guard peace in Ukraine.
Leaders of political forces oriented on whipping interests with Moscow and resisting Brussels will do nothing that would really threaten Russia’s position. “
Bankier.pl: “Nowy Military Alliance instead of NATO? Danish experts propose NBP “
Danish experts propose to create a military alliance of the NBP, covering Nordic, Baltic and Poland countries as a response to the threat from Russia. Professor Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen and economists Lars Christensen and Thomas Gress say that such an alliance would not only oppose Russian aggression, but could weaken its economy, (…) Like Reagan’s policy towards the USSR.
Christensen indicates that the economy of the NBP countries is 1.4 times greater than Russian. He also proposes a joint financial institution, enabling favorable reinforcement loans. Rasmussen emphasizes that NATO has become too large and internally divided, (…) which makes his future uncertain. “
