The Polish army will be reinforced with 15,000 new soldiers this year, as part of a plan to expand its military capacity and improve the results obtained in the military simulation against a hypothetical Russian invasion.
Poland’s Defense Minister, Mariusz Blaszczak, announced this Monday Eight thousand of those 15,000 conscripts are already “working”Having completed 28 days of basic training, as of Monday, another thousand young people will begin their education in 16 barracks in different regions of the country.
Includes Polish Army Expansion Program Double the number of employeesincreasing defense spending to 3% of GDP and modernizing equipment, through the purchase of 250 Abrams tanks and 32 F-35 aircraft.
The head of the Polish government party, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, said this Sunday in Kielce It is important to make enemies understand that “it is not worth attacking”stressing that the Polish defense doctrine is to “defend the borders (with Russia).”
For political scientist Karol Kowalski, of the University of Krakow, the military exercises carried out are aimed at Assess whether Poland “will be able to withstand an offensive for three weeks, until it receives reinforcements from the Allies”.
“The exercises were conducted twice. The first time, following political instructions, they are trying to defend the entire territory from the beginning. It was a disaster. In five days there will be Russian tanks in Warsaw. The exercises were repeated according to the plans of the army, retreating from the beginning to the region of the Vistula River. In this way, the Polish troops will remain 11 days, which is enough to receive assistance from the allies. ”
In this simulation, described by Polish President Andrzej Duda as “the largest mobilization the army has made since 1989,” he concluded that in the face of a Russian invasion, The Polish navy and aviation will be practically suppressed in the first five days of fightingas well as all ground forces east of the Vistula River.
However, according to military information published by the Polish media, if a defensive line was chosen from the beginning of the hypothetical conflict along the Vistula River and the Air Force transferred the aircraft to German bases to survive the first attacks, then it would be possible to hold it. Support the advance of the invaders until help is obtained.
At the recent NATO summit, it was announced that the headquarters of the US Army’s Fifth Corps would be established in Poland, a decision Duda described as “very important” and which, in his opinion, “strengthens Polish security.”
