Tomasz Szatkowski, erstwhile Deputy Minister of Defence, in Polsat News supported the thought of unannounced military readiness tests, referring to the request to effort to make the mobilization army. He stated that the military at the highest levels feared specified trials. For Poland it is not an academic debate: either the state is checking real readiness before the crisis comes, or it will discover the shortcomings at the worst moment.
Army test, not political fun
According to Polsat News, Tomasz Szatkowski in the "Guest of Events" program referred to the thought of trying to make the mobilization army. The erstwhile Deputy Minister of Defence and the erstwhile Polish Ambassador to NATO assessed that the Polish army should undergo unannounced preparedness tests. He besides said a conviction that should sound very loud in Warsaw: according to him, the military from the highest levels fear specified tests.
That's the point. A serious state does not check the army exclusively on the parade, in tables and in peaceful presentations to politicians. He tests her under pressure, surprise and logistical effort. so the largest defilada of the Polish Army may build pride, but it will not replace the answer to whether the strategy works erstwhile people, equipment, transport, communications and supplies request to be moved.
Mentzen's thought hit a nerve
The political background is clear. Sławomir Mentzen and the Confederation have been talking about the request to check real reserves and mobilisation procedures for a long time. In the conversation described by Do Things Mentzen pointed to a proposal to effort to mobilise 1 brigade. You can discuss the scale, expression and costs of specified exercise. However, we must not pretend that the question is not valid.
On the contrary. In Polish conditions, this question is basic. If we have an army to be developed in the event of a war, we request to know how long it will take to call the reservists, where congestion occurs, whether the warehouses are ready, whether the units have full procedures and whether the commanders can operate without the comfort of prior announcements. Paper will take anything. Mobilization is not.
Reserves are a state test
The war in Ukraine showed that the number of soldiers in barracks was only part of the picture. The second part includes reserves, industry, transport, administration, local governments, infrastructure protection and the ability to keep order during shock. The Polish right should talk about this without complexes. National safety is not the property of 1 department or 1 party.
In this sense, the request for readiness tests is simply a blow to a convenient bureaucratic routine. If the highest levels are indeed afraid of trials, as Szatkowski says, then they request to be carried out. Command that knows the weak points can fix them. The command, which defends itself before checking, leaves the bill to soldiers and civilians.
Politics has the right to ask the military
Some of the establishment reacts to specified proposals nervously, as if the specified question of the readiness of the army was an effort on its authority. It's a reversal of order. The authority of the military is not that civilian control is silent. It is that citizens have the right to know whether the state is prepared to defend their homes, families and borders.
The National diary has already written that The Confederacy faces a test of strength besides in programming matters. State defence is just specified a subject. The right, if he wants to be serious, must be able to combine anti-bureaucratic instinct with work for the Armed Forces. It's not adequate to say you gotta spend more. We gotta ask what precisely the Polish payer receives for this money.
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The stakes are very specific. It is about the lives of soldiers, the safety of families and the resilience of the state in the first days of the crisis. If the mobilisation procedures are good, the test will confirm and strengthen trust. If they are hollow, the test will show this in area time, erstwhile mistakes can inactive be corrected without victims.
Poland has no luxury of pretending. We're lying at the brink of war, we're watching Russian pressure, and we're proceeding more and more declarations about large defence programs. Declarations are needed, but the test is more important. An army that fears the test will not become braver than the very swearing of reality.
Source: Polsat News, To Things.
Source: Polsat News
