According to the General Staff of the Polish Army, Brig-Gen Jarosław Mokrzycki and Colonel Mirosław Postołowicz won competitions for crucial positions in allied structures. Officers will presume fresh functions successively on 1 September and 1 October. The first will go to the European Union Military Staff, and the second to the NATO Communications and Computer discipline Agency.
Gen. Mokrzycki, who presently serves as Chief of Staff of the 2nd Polish Corps – Land Component Command, won the competition for the position of manager Operations at the European Union Military Staff (EUMS) in Brussels. In turn, Colonel Mirosław Postolowicz, commander of the Multi-North-East Corps Support Brigade, will become manager of the Communications Support Unit (CIS Support Units) at the NATO Communications and Information Technology Agency (NCIA).
Key Allied Institutions
The European Union Military Staff (EUMS) is simply a specialised European Union executive body liable for military strategical planning, safety assessment and preparation of operational options for EU missions and operations under the Common safety and Defence Policy. The staff shall operate under the political leadership of the Political and safety Committee and the military supervision of the European Union Military Committee (EUMC) and shall supply the EU's expertise in command, planning and conducting military operations. It is in the EUMS structures that directorates responsible, inter alia, for operations, planning and capacity improvement in which directorships are filled by associate State officers.
The NATO Agency for Communications and Information Technology (NCIA) is the central technological base of the North Atlantic Alliance, liable for the design, implementation and maintenance of communication systems and information technology essential for the functioning of NATO in times of peace, crisis and conflict. The Agency shall supply a safe and interoperable information environment for command and control structures, support military operations and exercises, and shall be liable for the improvement and maintenance of C4ISR systems enabling effective command, data exchange and situation awareness at strategical and operational level. The key area of NCIA's operations is besides the 24/7 protection of NATO's network against cyber attacks and the improvement of the Alliance's cyber-defense capabilities, making the agency 1 of the pillars of NATO's resilience to the digital and information domain.
National and abroad experience
Gen. brig. Jarosław Mokrzycki is simply a postgraduate of the Higher Officers' School of the Mechanized Army (1993), the National Defence Academy (now the Academy of War Art, 2002), Joint Forces Staff College in Norfolk, USA (1995–1996), he graduated postgraduate from AszWoj and Leon Kozmiński Academy. He began his professional service in 1993 in the 21st Podhalan firearm Brigade as commander of the mountain infantry platoon. From 1995 to 1996, he served as an operational officer in the Polish military contingent in Syria at Golan Hills in the UNDOF mission. In 2002, after graduating from the National Defence Academy, he was assigned to the Land Army Command. From 2007 to 2008, he served during the IX PKW Iraq shift as Deputy Chief of Staff of the Multinational Centre-South Division. On 7 October 2021, in Lublin, he took command of the Lithuanian-Polish-Ukrainian Brigade (LITPOLUKRBRIG). On November 10, 2022, president Andrzej Duda appointed him as Brigadier General. Since 11 September 2023 he has been Chief of Staff of the 2nd Polish Corps – Command of the Land Component. Married, has 1 son. He speaks English and Russian. His hobbies include safety engineering, computer science, literature and mountain sports.
Colonel Mirosław Postolowicz is an alumnus of the Higher School of Officers of the Military of Communications in Zegrz (1996), a postgraduate of the postgraduate studies of the Higher School of Humanities in Pultusk and the National Defence Academy. In 2021, he completed postgraduate studies in defence policy at the National Defence University in Washington (USA). Immediately after the completion of WCOWŁ, he took up the position of head of a secret communications station in Warsaw. From 1998 to 2006, he was a lecturer and then a elder lecturer at the Centre for Communication and Information Technology Training in Zegrzu. At the turn of 2003–04 he participated in PKW UNDOF in Syria, where he was commander of the platoon of command. In 2006, he was appointed as Section Commander client Service Squadron, NATO CIS Services Agency, in Heidelberg (Germany). He later served on the Management Board of Systems Planning Command and Communications – P6 General Staff. Colonel Mirosław Postołowicz has completed many specialist courses in NATO training centres, including Oberammergau and Latina, as well as abroad training in task management, programs and ICT services. Married, has 2 children. His passion is tennis, he is besides curious in photography and tourism.
