Formowanie Wojsk Obrony Terytorialnej

• Authors: Janusz Tomaszewski

Title variants

EN

Development of Territorial Defence Forces

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Territorial Defence Forces (TDF) began their official activity on 1 January 2017. They are the fifth single service in the Polish Armed Forces next to Lang Forces, Air Force, Navy and Special Operations Forces. It has been established that the organization of TDF is going to be strictly related to the currently existing ad­ministrative division of the country, giving a total of 17 brigades. Ultimately, there are to be 53,000 soldiers within the ranks. In times of peace TDF should mainly be ready to execute crisis management activities, in times of war TDF should support regular Polish Army Forces in terms of direct warfare.

Keywords

EN

obrona terytorialna; siły zbrojne; lekka piechota; zarządzanie kryzysowe; działania nieregularne; terytorialna służba wojskowa; territorial defence; armed forces; light infantry; crisis management; irregular activities; territorial military service

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego
• Journal: Wrocławskie Studia Politologiczne
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 26
• Pages: 70-87

Contributors

author

Janusz Tomaszewski

• Uniwersytet Wrocławski