Polish Armed Forces - Mission

Mission

Pursuant to the National Security Strategy of the Republic of Poland, the supreme strategic goal of the Republic of Poland is to ensure favourable and secure conditions for the realization of national interests by eliminating external and internal threats, reducing risks and rightly assessing undertaken challenges and ably using existing opportunities. The Republic of Poland’s main strategic goals in the area of defence include:

  • ensuring independence and sovereignty of the Republic of Poland, its integrality and inviolability of its borders;
  • defence and protection of all the citizens of the Republic of Poland;
  • creating conditions to ensure continuity of implementation of functions by public administration authorities and other entities competent in the area of national security, including entities responsible for running the economy and for other areas important for the life and security of its citizens;
  • creating conditions for improvement of the state’s defence capabilities and ensuring defence readiness in the national and Allied structures;
  • developing partnership military cooperation with other states, especially neighbouring ones;
  • implementing commitments arising from Poland’s NATO and European Union membership;
  • engagement in international crisis response operations led by NATO and the EU in the first place, as well as by the UN or as part of emergency coalitions.

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