National security strategic tasks of the Republic of Poland at the turn of the second and third decade of the twenty-first century

Abstract

This article presents the main strategic tasks that Poland should take to
strengthen their own security in the next 5 to 10 years. The first and particularly
important task is to continue the cycle of national strategic planning. It is
necessary to complete the development of basic directive and planning documents
to ensure the implementation of the adopted in 2014, the new National
Security Strategy, and at the same time to start another Strategic Review of
National Security, starting a new cycle of planning. Six tasks concern the practical,
organisational and technical strengthening Poland’s own security capabilities.
These include: the consolidation of the system of national security
management, building a system of strategic resilience to aggression, organizing
national information security system, including the acceleration of the
construction of the cyber security system, improving preparation of reserve
mobilisation and reform of the National Reserve Forces, implementation
of the ‘third wave’ of technical modernisation of the Polish Armed Forces
– cyber-defence, unmanned systems, precision-guided weapons, launch and
implementation of the National Programme for unmanned systems (flywheel
of innovation for security and development). The third part of the tasks refers
to activities aimed at strengthening the Poland’s external security pillars.
These are measures to strengthen the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation,
the strategic actions leading to the empowerment of the European Union and
the development of cooperation between NATO and the EU (political and
strategic response to hybrid threats) and strengthening strategic partnerships,
especially the alliance with the US.