Bezborzyński: Short, Ready and helpless

Jacek Hoga, president of the Ad Arma Foundation and military advisor, and at the same time frequently commenting on the current situation and capabilities of the Polish army, commented for the weekly “To the Thing” on the “drone affair” which led to reflection on Poland's ability to defend against them. He stated that the fact that drones were being thrown off F-35 and F-16 aircraft was a large problem, not a scandal. All this due to the fact that drone strikes are a fresh kind of strategical warfare. As a non-military state, we do not have the force to break the legal and decision-making barriers to complement our capacity in this area. Firstly, shooting at sparrow cannons does not mean plans for specified actions during the war, and secondly, what the Hoga's opponents who consider him a Russian agent did not agree that we are not entirely certain who was behind the invasion of Polish airspace.

I hope it's just a bluff.

Jacek Hoga reminds of the words of the editor of Gromadzki, that Duda acknowledged with words about Ukrainian provocation in Przewodowo, that then for 2 days in the decision-making circles of the Polish state there were serious fears that we were entering the war. The fear was expected to be real. At the proposition of the editor of Gromadzki, that Polish authorities heat up war hysteria, that Sikorski repeats the request to shoot down Russian missiles and drones over Ukraine from NATO states Jacek Hoga hopes it's just a bluff. He besides feels fortunate present that there is no large probability that the bluff will be tested. Unfortunately, the Polish state is not checked. In his view, the Constitution overpowers the capacity of the executive and general staff to prevent an effective decision-making process. In addition, there is outdated military equipment and not adequate ammunition. The formal and legal restrictions in arms production consequence in a simplification in production capacity. Interestingly, it is not the first time he compares the present time with the Polish People's Republic of Poland, claiming that then the possibilities were greater. And this is the consequence of the defective provisions of the Production and peculiar Trading Act. Concessions not only appear on rockets and combat aircraft but besides chemical contamination detectors, tank drivers simulators and 1500 hp engines for motor boats. So the state prevents the creation of the Polish arms industry. But he does not ask himself whether specified a condition is intentional.

Several groups rule

The defective formal and legal system, in his opinion, causes that alternatively of removing these legal absurdities, we are dealing with another aid to Ukraine. The reason is that Parliament is governed by respective groups of 3 or 4 people, due to the fact that the remainder of the Members are only from pressing the button. respective groups in effect make a communicative based on poll posts. And that makes it hard to manage anything. So turning Poland into a war can be a consequence, not a planned goal, according to Jack Hoga. He sees these groups as completely devoid of strategical thinking, be specified in the longer word than the next election. He besides said that among politicians there are people with views that coincide with his, and to that who do not bow down to them due to the fact that it would harm their careers. They besides accumulate various supplies for a “black hour” but do not inform voters due to the fact that they would not be understood. There are besides politicians with ‘something like this’ views, with the fact that, as he points out today, they are not as friendly to incompetent politicians as they were in the 1990s. The current political class resembles a classmate who is the weakest and afraid of his own shadow, so he must be loud, naughty, due to the fact that that's the only thing he can do to defend himself.

What do you do to change that?

The state's diagnosis is not a surprise, however, and in an interview comes the time to ask what to do to rapidly remove deficits? In order to respond to specified drone threats. Jacek Hoga believes that this can be done technically in a fewer months, politically this anticipation is not presently available. Here there would should be different compromises. Radars for low-flying purposes would gotta have escalators. Deficiencies are besides in the anti-aircraft personnel. The army does not train reserves, and it is being mobilized during the war. A fewer 100 people per department is enough. There is no courage to admit this, so no 1 is taking the subject, due to the fact that it is simply a disgrace to the professional army. The problem is buying costly anti-aircraft systems, and abroad, and we have not developed our own capabilities. And these are just parade systems. Here again comes the comparison to the PRL, in which the air defence strategy operated 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The restoration of these capabilities requires considerable effort, which is unrealistic or restores the collection. And that's going to give human resources a chance to plant these systems. Finally, he admits that Poland withdrew in comparison to the times of the Polish People's Republic, erstwhile he described them as "totalitarian, economically inefficient, force-imposed semi-Polish state was more effective in military capabilities by a government of magnitude than the current one".

Bartłomiej Doborzyński