Przestrzeń kosmiczna jest obecnie jedną z domen konfrontacji wojskowej. W połączeniu z innymi domenami tworzy wielodomenowe środowisko operacji wojskowych. Strategia Bezpieczeństwa Narodowego RP z 2020 roku podkreśla znaczenie komponentu satelitarnego. Przewiduje ona rozwój zdolności do działań w wielu wymiarach, w tym w przestrzeni kosmicznej. Komponent satelitarny wykracza poza tradycyjne obszary konfliktu, tworząc nowe zagrożenia i...Read More

Zeszłoroczna wojna pomiędzy Rosją i Gruzją spowodowała kryzys w relacjach NATO – Rosja, co doprowadziło do zawieszenie prac Rady, zamrożenia wymiany informacji wojskowych oraz personelu wojskowego. Mija dwadzieścia lat po upadku muru berlińskiego i pięć lat po ustanowieniu Rady NATO – Rosja. Przywódcy NATO uskarżają się na trudny dialog z Moskwą. Zamiast tego powinni korzystać...Read More

The Polish authorities can apply Article 4 of the North Atlantic Treaty in connection with the fall of the missiles on Polish territory. Polish military expert Pawel Fleischer said this in his commentary to „Belsat. Pawel Fleischer advised to wait for official statements of the Polish government regarding the Przewodowa incident. Nevertheless, the military expert...Read More

Josep Borrell, EU representative for foreign affairs and security policy, spoke of the weakness of European armies. According to him, Europe was not ready for a possible war. Armies were reduced, defense budgets were cut. Some countries, however, are already responding to the threat. Thus, Poland is ready to spend billions of dollars on the...Read More

After the breakdown of the international order in 1989/1990, Poland has accomplished a political and economic transformation which is perceived as a model in the world. The introduced reforms have led to fundamental changes in many economy sectors and opened the Polish market on globalization processes. With the accession to the European Union, the trend...Read More

Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (www.cast.ru) published my article describing the transformation of the Polish defence industry in the last decade. Eksport Vooruzheniy (Arms Exports) is Russia’s research journal focusing on the defense industry and arms trade issues. The first issue was published by the CAST in 1997. The journal belongs to one of...Read More

On May 12, 2020, President Andrzej Duda signed a new National Security Strategy of Poland. This document replaced the previous strategy approved in 2014 and contains many changes. Usually such documents do not attract much attention outside of government and expert circles, but this time it happened differently. In addition to these appeals, similar views...Read More

Belarus has created a medium-range missiles – said Alexander Lukashenko after receiving a report from the head of the State Military-Industrial Committee of Belarus – Roman Holovchenko. Later it became clear that the head of Belarus had in mind not the rocket, but a slightly different thing. However, the Belarusian missile program has hit the...Read More

Hostile rhetoric as a cover-up for an attempt to negotiate: Belarus’ and Poland’s top brass are establishing contacts while Lukashenka are publicly slamming the western neighbours. Will Minsk and Warsaw help defuse the tension between Moscow and Washington? This is an important stage in Poland and Belarus relations. Its goal is de-escalating and explaining all...Read More

In recent months, Warsaw has made several important steps to obtain US approval for the deployment of additional forces on the Poland territory. In addition to the willingness to contribute 2 billion for the establishment of „Fort Trump”, the Polish army recently bought Patriot air defense systems, Black Hawk helicopters for Special Forces and recently...Read More