Pols Airmed Forces

Airmed Forces o the Republic o Poland
	Siły Zbrojne Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej
	; Seembols o the Pols Airmed Forces. During the existence of the Pols Fowk's Airmy, thay are identical tae the seembols above but with the crouns remuived.
Motto	God, Honor, Fatherland; (Bóg, Honor, Ojczyzna)
Foondit	1918
Current furm	Januar 1990
Service branches	Pols Laund Forces; Pols Air Forces; Pols Navy; Pols Special Forces; Pols Territorial Defence Forces
Heidquarters	Warsaw
Leadership
President; Supreme Commander	Andrzej Duda
Meenister o Naitional Defence	Mariusz Błaszczak
Chief o the General Staff	LTG Rajmund Andrzejczak
Manpower
Militar age	18 years o age
Conscription	Nae (syne January 2009)
Available for; militar service	18,830,448, age 15–49 (2015 est.)
Fit for; militar service	15,583,917, age 15–49 (2015 est.)
Reachin militar; age annually	1,000,000 (2015 est.)
Active personnel	120,800 (2018) (ranked 42nd)
Reserve personnel	75,400 Border Gairds and Police Prevention forces
Deployed personnel	1,175 (2019)
Expenditures
Budget	PLN 45.379 billion ($12 billion) (2019)
Percent o GDP	2.01% (2019)
Industry
Domestic suppliers	Polish Defence Holding; WZM S.A.; PZL-Świdnik; HSW S.A.; OBRUM
Relatit airticles
History	Leet o Pols wars; Timeline o the Pols Airmy
Ranks	Pols Airmed Forces rank insignia

The Airmed Forces o the Republic o Poland (Pols: Siły Zbrojne Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej, abbreviatit SZ RP; popularly cried Wojsko Polskie in Poland, abbreviatit WP—roughly, the "Pols Militar") are the naitional airmed forces o the Republic o Poland. The name haes been uised syne the early 19th century, but can an aw be applied tae earlier periods.

The Airmed Forces o the Republic of Poland are the Wojska Lądowe (Pols Laund Forces), Marynarka Wojenna (Pols Navy), Siły Powietrzne (Pols Air Forces), Wojska Specjalne (Pols Special Forces) an Wojska Obrony Terytorialnej (Pols Territorial Defence Force) which are unner the command o the Ministerstwo Obrony Narodowej Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej (Meenistry o Naitional Defence o Poland).

Frae 2002 until 2014, Pols militar forces were pairt of the Coalition Forces that pairticipatit in the ISAF mission in Afghanistan led bi NATO. Poland's contreibution tae ISAF wis the kintra's lairgest, syne its entrance intae NATO.

Pols forces an aw tuik pairt in the Iraq War. Frae 2003 tae 2008, Pols militar forces commanded the Multinaitional Diveesion (MND-CS) locatit in the South-Central Occupation Zone o Iraq. The division wis made up of troops frae 23 nations an totaled as mony as 8,500 sodgers.

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↑ IISS 2019, p. 135.
↑ ^a ^b IISS 2019, p. 137.
↑ ^a ^b (PDF). 25 Juin 2019 https://www.nato.int/nato_static_fl2014/assets/pdf/pdf_2019_06/20190625_PR2019-069-EN.pdf. Retrieved 8 Julie 2019. Missing or empty |title= (help)

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IISS (2019). The Military Balance 2019. Routledge. ISBN 978-1857439885.
Rafał Domisiewicz, Consolidating the Security Sector in Post-Conflict States: Polish Lessons from Iraq, Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Andrew A. Michta, Red Eagle: The Army in Polish Politics 1944–1988, Hoover Press, 1990.
Ministry of National Defence, Defence Strategy of the Republic of Poland, Warsaw, 2009.

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[FOOTNOTEIISS2019135-1] IISS 2019, p. 135.

[FOOTNOTEIISS2019137-2] IISS 2019, p. 137.

[NATO-3] (PDF). 25 Juin 2019 https://www.nato.int/nato_static_fl2014/assets/pdf/pdf_2019_06/20190625_PR2019-069-EN.pdf. Retrieved 8 Julie 2019. Missing or empty |title= (help)

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