Russia’s president Vladimir Putin is determined to reconstruct what he considers the be the glory of the former Soviet Union, and so he has tipped his hand in several ways. He has taken parts of the Crimea, and his claim that parts of Ukrain are rightly Russian territory of Russia due to large Russian populations within certain Ukrainian areas were excuses to annex parts of the country. He is also venturing into the Middle East, though truly his desire is for European territory and pathways to the Baltic and Black Seas and easy transport of Russian natural gas to world markets.
Poland is a major prize, but the Polish still remember the suffering and servitude under the former Soviet Union, and they are determined to not let that happen again. To that end they are relying on NATO and also preparing internally to reject Russian efforts to carve out pieces of their country, and to put in to place internal military and paramilitary groups that can fend off Russian aggression and “infiltration,” at least until NATO support can arrive to help.
Paramilitary groups are to be formed in Poland to enhance its military capabilities as part of the preparations for a possible ‘hybrid war’ with Russia, the Defense Ministry said.
“The territorial defense force is our response to the threat associated with hybrid warfare,” said Polish Defense Ministry official Grzegorz Kwasniak, who is responsible for the creation of the new paramilitary group.
The new force will comprise 35,000 civilian volunteers that will undergo military training. Each Polish province will then receive one brigade of the territorial defense force, consisting of volunteer battalions, with the biggest and most populous Mazovia province getting two brigades.
The eastern Polish provinces of Podlachia, Lublin and Podkarpachie will have priority in deployment of the paramilitary units as they are deemed to be most exposed to the perceived Russian aggression.
“Enrollment of the first members of the territorial defense force will start in September,” Polish Defense Minister Antoni Macierewicz said on Thursday at a conference of paramilitary organizations in the northern Polish town of Ostroda, AFP reports. He also said the group’s command structure and senior appointments had already been decided in April, as reported by the Polish PAP news agency.
The personnel of the newly formed paramilitary units will receive a monthly payment amounting to 500 zlotys (€125), according to dpa.
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RUSSIA IS LOOKING AFTER ITS SELF AND IS TAKING LAND TO SERVIVE AND TAKE CARE OF ITS PEOPLE GETTING READY TO FIGHT ISLAM LIKE WE SHOULD HAVE BEEN DOING YET WE RECIEVED THEM WITH PEN ARMS
YOU DONT UNDER STAND HE GETTING READY TO MAKE A STAND AGANIST ISLAM INVASION FROM EUROP.
“Obama has decimated our military readiness..”
I ask the following:
We have the most powerful and capable military not only in the world but in the entire HISTORY of the world – including our own history. We are the single most technologically advanced, most powerful, most far ranging and far reaching military that has ever taken to the field. Ever.
We just commissioned the most powerful warship in the history of the human race, the single most versatile deadly machine ever put to sea, the Zumwalt class destroyer. That ship joins the most powerful fleet in the history of the human race. A single US Battle Group is more powerful than entire FLEETS of World War II battleships, capable of fighting beneath, on, and above every single ocean in the world all the way into low earth orbit. Moreover, the officers and enlisted sailors who crew those vessels are the best trained seamen in the world, skilled, educated, experienced warfighters who routinely command unbelievable technologies and weapons whose power and reach can barely be comprehended.
And it is the same in every branch of the military. We have squadrons of B-2 and F-22s, respectively the world’s most capable bombers and fighters, literally generations ahead of anybody else AND another new one, the world’s most advanced and versatile military aircraft, the F-35, coming online right now (are there problems? You bet. Go look at the initial deployment of the F-15 at the end of Vietnam and get back to me). Hell, we don’t even need to launch those birds, we can kill our enemies half a world away in real time at the touch of a button. Our robots are more powerful and more capable than most of the world’s human warriors.
Our Marines are best fighters in the world, feared and respected over the entire globe. We have enough nuclear firepower sitting out there on the Great Plains to end every single human life on the planet. Our intelligence apparatus is larger than the entire information processing capability of most advanced nations. Our police forces are militarized. Our second string National Guard is better equipped, better trained, and more experienced than most countries’ front line troops. And our military industrial complex is funded to more than 20% of our entire federal budget and larger than the next 7 countries (most of which are our allies) combined.
More, our troops are battle tested, tempered, and experienced by two decades of combat. No other force in the world has their proven experience. None.
But here, right here, is the bottom line: We’ve been at war for 15 years. 15 YEARS. And? Look around. Morale is high, higher than it was when I joined up during the Vietnam war, I can tell you that with utter certainty. Nowadays a military tour, a career in the military, is respected by American society, again it for goddamned sure wasn’t when I joined up. Every month, military recruiting meets its quota, every month. There’s no draft, hell, there aren’t even recruiting posters. The current generation, the ones these same people call worthless and lazy and self-involved, yeah THAT generation, well, Sir, they join up in such numbers that we have to early retire older troops.
So, explain to me where the decimation is, because I am not seeing it.
When somebody says to you, “Obama has destroyed the military” or “Donald Trump will make our military great again,” you look those deluded idiots right in the eye and you demand a specific itemization of the supposed decimated readiness: Item by item, line by line, make them spell it out. Don’t let them look away, don’t let the use Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh or Ann Coulter or Donald Trump as a reference, don’t let them change the subject or move the goalposts, you make them show their work. Item by item, line by line, inch by inch, put it on the table.
Sean Hillgrove when you said militia it got me thinking
Eat a lot of lead paint when you were little did you?. Our carriers, the backbone of our navy are all in need of serious refit after 14 years of constant use. Look at the true numbers of F22 fighters, you will be shocked. Same with B1 and B2 bombers. Literally a handful of each. The majority of our bomber fleet is the aged B52 the youngest of which is older than 99% of our active duty pilots.
Poland stopped the last jihad with the winged hussars, it looks like Poland will be the tip of the spear again. You guys also know Poland left the EU and the EU was pissed.
Good luck Poland. I hope you get some help when needed. I know it won’t come from the USA. Unless a drone will help.
Ricky walker you no people will think you are dumb$#%&!@*Obama wasn’t president o.n 911 I do it was George bush hell that little thing don’t matter hell blame this guy any way. Just don’t blame the one who deserve this honor
Well said Richard
polocks be like our freinds