POLISH SPECIAL OPERATIONS FORCES. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND AND THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
POLISH SPECIAL OPERATIONS FORCES. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND AND THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

Summary/Abstract: The decision to establish Polish Special Forces Command within Polish Armed Forces was not hasty or dictated by an impulse or a significant event. After taking this step, all political authorities accountable for defining strategy and military authorities responsible for setting directions for Polish Armed Forces development cooperated, as they understood the idea, the role and the tasks of Special Operations Forces within the country’s security system. It is worth underlining that training of the Special Operations Forces Command used the philosophy of gradually achieving the final concept, which is supposed to reorganize the structures and create modular task structures in the prospect of several years or more. It is assumed that completing the plans and tasks to reorganize and modernize Special Operations Forces between 2009 – 2018 will allow increasing the number of Special Operations Forces combat components and significantly improving their combat capabilities and modern battle space effectiveness. The strength of Polish Special Operations Forces will consist of approximately 3% of all military personnel of Polish Armed Forces. Nowadays, the role of politicians is to create the proper environment to accomplish the plans for development, as well as the constant funding. The funding is much lower compared to the “conventional” Armed Forces, which seem so important in the age of the global, financial austerity.

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