Poland is preparing a new 15-year program for the development of the army, taking into account the experience of the war in Ukraine
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Poland is developing a program for the development of the armed forces for 2025-2039, taking into account the experience of the war in Ukraine. The document will include seven priorities, including increasing the army, developing air defense and introducing artificial intelligence.
Poland this month will prepare a document on a new program for the development of the Armed Forces of Ukraine for the next 15 years. In the formation of the program for 2025-2039, the experience of Russia's war against Ukraine was taken as a basis. This was stated on December 9 by the chief of the General Staff of the Polish army Weslaw Kukul, writes "Radio Liberty", reports UNN.
According to the general, the new program will have seven priorities. Among them – increasing the qualitative and quantitative size of the army and reserves, developing air defense and synchronizing actions in all areas – on the ground, in the air, at sea, in cyber and outer space. Another priority is to speed up and improve the quality of decision-making processes by implementing artificial intelligence in command programs and support systems.
For the first time in the history of creating such a document, we had a unique opportunity to use to model our future conclusions from the war that continues near Poland – conclusions that we have been diligently collecting since the beginning of the Russian aggression against Ukraine, back in 2016
According to him, the main tasks that the Polish army should focus on in the coming years are deterrence and defense.
"With the new program for the development of the armed forces, we are finally moving away from the structure characteristic of the so-called war on terrorism and asymmetric wars. The model of its architecture reflects the two functions "force provider" and "force user", that is, "force providers"and" force users". This model at a time of a high – intensity and large-scale military threat is a very big anachronism today," the chief of the Polish General Staff stressed.
As Kukla pointed out, the future of the Polish army should be based on a new architecture, and the most important tasks of the army should be combat readiness, constant transformation and response to modern challenges.
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Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia have called on the European Union to build a defense line along the bloc's border with Russia and Belarus to protect the EU from military threats and other harmful actions from Moscow.
Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said that Poland plans to increase its defense spending to 5% of GDP in 2025.
