Poland will allocate 4% of GDP to increase defence capacity

During a press conference at a press conference in the 18th Mechanized Division, he stated that according to the budget adopted by the Sejm for 2023, until 4% of GDP will be allocated to the reinforcement and improvement of the Polish army. It is over 97 billion PLN.

On Monday, the Minister of National Defence Mariusz Błaszczak and Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki met with soldiers of the 18th Mechanized Division of the General of defence Tadeusz Buk in Siedlce. A press conference took place in the military unit square.

During the conference, the Prime Minister pointed out that during the governments of the civilian Platform coalition and the Polish People's organization there was a massive simplification and liquidation of military units. The 1st Ciechanowski Artillery Regiment of the Marshal Józef Piłsudski 1st Siedle Declaration Battalion of the 1st Warsaw Mechanized Division of Tadeusz Kościuszko was formed. The president of the Council of Ministers pointed out that thanks to the sealing of the financial strategy and its repair, it allowed to finance arms spending since 2015. It was noted that in 2023 4% of Polish GDP will be allocated to defence expenditure. It is an amount of PLN 99.4 billion. In 2015 it was only PLN 37 billion, or 2.2% of GDP. This is an increase of over 160 percent. Moreover, as Morawiecki emphasizes, since 2015 the number of Polish soldiers has increased from 95 1000 to about 164 thousand.

- I'm sorry. present we already bring K2 tanks, cannonhaubice K9, HIMARS were ordered and come to Poland soon. Already on Polish dirt are Patriots - the most modern anti-missile and anti-aircraft systems. We bring the most modern equipment to Poland and besides produce our equipment like Crabs, like Lightning," said the head of the government on the subject of modernization of the Polish army - Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.

Prime Minister @MorawieckiM In @Zelazna_Division In #Sedlce: The liquidation of military units by erstwhile rulers, especially in the east of Poland, was a strategy of chaos and naivety. We download to the latest equipment and produce our own - like Crabs and Lightning. pic.twitter.com/nwPrXzKzQm

— Prime Minister's Office (@PremierRP) January 30, 2023

Mr Mariusz Błaszczak, Minister of National Defence, besides took the floor, who pointed out the expansion and modernization of the Polish Army.

- I'm sorry. In 2018 we ordered the PATRIOT anti-aircraft and rocket defence system. PATRIOTs have been on Polish dirt since the end of last year, and in 2019 we ordered HIMARS rockets, rockets with a scope of up to 300 km. specified a strategy works perfectly in the hands of Ukrainians to counter the Russian storm. (...) In 2021 we ordered BAYRAKTARY and they are already equipped with the Polish Army. We ordered ABRAMS tanks to the 18th Mechanized Division. Already this year, the ABRAMS utilized tanks will hit the equipment of the Polish Army. We yet reactivated the division, the Iron Division. The 18th Mechanized Division was established here in Siedlce. Finally, this year, the equipment of the Polish Army will besides be equipped with CHUNMOO rocket kits, FA-50 aircraft ordered last year. The K-2 tanks, Korean tanks since December last year, are besides equipped with the Polish Army. And we besides order weapons in the Polish weapons manufacture - Minister of Defence Mariusz Błaszczak.

Deputy Prime Minister @mblaszczak: 629 organizational units of the Polish Army were liquidated at the time of the PO-PSL coalition. Military units liable for safety in the east of the country were liquidated. alternatively of building units and equipping them with modern equipment, they were liquidated. pic.twitter.com/NSgalVX4Dj

— Ministry of Defence (@MON_GOV_PL) January 30, 2023

So much for the alleged exodus of soldiers. The Polish army is increasing stronger! We have more and more soldiers who have the latest equipment. We play units and make fresh ones. Only this year in voluntary essential military service we prepared 25,000 seats pic.twitter.com/Ejzka7Fy4S

— Mariusz Błaszczak (@mblaszczak) January 29, 2023

Since Russia's attack on independent Ukraine in 2022, the Polish government has intensified efforts to arm and increase the army's population. In December 2022, a Korean ship arrived at the port in Gdynia, which carried the purchased ship in July K2 tanks and K9 cannonhaubice. Poland has concluded a framework agreement with Hyundai Rot to get a full of 1000 K2 tanks and their Polishized developmental version of K2PL together with accompanying vehicles, as well as training and logistics package, ammunition supply and method support of the manufacturer. In turn, the framework agreement concluded with Hanwha defence includes the acquisition of a full of 672 self-propelled Haubic K9A1 and their poloniumed developmental version of K9PL together with accompanying vehicles, as well as training and logistics package, ammunition supply and method support of the manufacturer. In Morąg on 26 August, Minister of National Defence approved executive contracts for the supply of 180 K2 tanks and 212 haubic K9 tanks for the Polish Army. The tanks are to be delivered by Hyundai Rotem from 2022 to 2025, and the Haubice Hanwha Defense, from 2022 to 2026. It was from this order that the Polish side received the machines today.

In addition, negotiations on the acquisition of K239 Chunmoo rocket launchers ended in October. The first 18 launchers, integrated with the Polish vehicles JELCZ and ammunition, are to be ready by 2023. Ultimately, the Polish army will receive 300 launchers and a large supply of ammunition.

On Tuesday 27 December 2022 Mariusz Błaszczak concluded a transportation contract with the Minister of Defence of France Sébastien Lecornu 2 reflection satellites with reception station in Poland. The head of the Polish MON indicated that the Polish side will have access to satellite imagery after signing the contract. They will yet operate within the French constellation. The fresh satellites will increase the capabilities of the Polish Army to get exploratory data based on reflection satellites operating within the French-Polish constellation. Thanks to them, it will be possible to get reconnaissance data in the field of image designation with an accuracy of up to 30 cm, and operating within the constellation will let to visualize a much larger area of the Earth than is possible in 1 country.

In May it began recruitment for voluntary essential military service. The application for appointment could be completed at promotional and information stands. This is an component of the Home defence Act. The Act proposes financing and modernisation mechanisms, as well as indicating a model to scope 300 1000 soldiers in the Polish armed forces (250 1000 in operational units and 50,000 in the Territorial Defence Forces). January of this year the formation of the fresh division has begun Polish Army - 1st Legion Infantry Division. It will operate mainly in the Podlaskie Voivodeship and fill the gap between already operating 16. Mechanized Division and 18 Mechanized Division. The Ministry of Defence notes that the concept of establishing a fresh tactical union was prepared by an experienced commander General Norbert Ivanowski. It will be 1 of 2 fresh tactical units to strengthen the defence possible of the Polish Army.

Editor's comment

Despite spending millions or billions of PLN on state-of-the-art equipment in the form of tanks, rockets or drones, there is 1 aspect that must be built for years if not generations. It is simply a attachment to the Homeland. The natural sense of work of all Pole to fight and sacrifice even his own wellness and life to defend the country. Unfortunately, the May 2022 poll is not optimistic. The Institute for marketplace and Social Research, commissioned by Rzeczpospolita, conducted a very interesting study. The workshop asked Poles what actions they would take "if Poland were attacked by a abroad state". It turned out that only a number of respondents declared willing to participate in the active defence of their homeland.

25.8% of the respondents declared that they would effort to "resist with their loved ones abroad". The youngest respondents aged 18-29, of whom 57%, chose this consequence proportionally. Higher than the average percent of specified responses were besides recorded among women (34%), supporters of political opposition (42%), people with a bachelor's degree and a master's degree (33%), residents of the village (36%), voters of Simon Holownia (56%).

On the another hand, 20.6% of respondents declared that they would join military, paramilitary or sanitary units to participate in the defence of their homeland. More frequently than average, men (34%), people under the age of 30 (34%) and those aged 40-49 (30%), residents of centres up to 50,000 inhabitants (31%), people with secondary education (24%), Confederate voters (57%), Civic Coalition (36%), as well as those who voted in the presidential election for Krzysztof Bosak (41%) or Simon Hołownia (34%).

This is the biggest occupation to do. Strengthen the morale of our society, attachment to the national community and to the national state. The Ukrainians showed it well. Russia attacked its neighbour knowing that support for president Zelenski and the government was very weak. Aggressor was hoping to do a fast military operation. However, as past has shown us and shows us today, nations have a future. The Ukrainians fought and beat the enemy effectively.

Finally, callback the article "Militarization of the nation - outline of the idea", in which we read:

“The war in Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea have made any aware that we do not live in a planet without wars. And without these events, it would be irrational to say so. Although the methods of conducting armed conflicts are evolving, and our country has not been affected by the invasion for decades, war cannot be completely excluded as a method of resolving political disputes. Nations prepared for war can always feel more secure. However, this adoption besides has a different dimension – educational. A militarized nation is simply a disciplined nation, prone to sacrifice, besides in conditions of peace.

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Under these geographical conditions, safety cannot be guaranteed ‘forever’. The geographical location of key importance for the safety of Europe – in the Baltic-Carpathic narrowing of the main land corridor connecting east and Western Europe, in the vicinity of 2 powers with permanent expansional aspirations – shows the request for Poland to build an undefeated defence power, as the basis of lasting national and European security. Poland is strong militarily, able to deter enemies with its defence potential, is simply a necessity. This, alternatively than the strategy of global alliances, is the key origin for peace in the region.

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The nationalist movement is predestined to present here a detailed imagination of raising the level of military awareness and identifying the nation with the army—according to the old glorious patterns, but besides the request for modernity. The military is not and will not be an anachronism for long, as indoctrinated by pacifistic utopia liberals would. The army must become a return armed arm of the nation – this requires not only the reforms and reinforcements introduced by the MON, but, above all, a change in the attitude of society itself. ‘The Army is the Nation’, General Haller stated. It is time to learn from this."

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