"We have a circumstantial situation in Europe: Germany has the scale to build military leadership. France has atomic weapons, but it is expeditionary-oriented. The British army has shrunk to specified an degree that it will take them 10 years to rebuild 1 division. Poland has all reason and urgent request to lead this process, and especially to build regional structures in the Nordic-Baltic region," said Prof. Andrew Michta in an interview with Defence24.