Polish Lawmaker On Obama’s Remarks To Medvedev: ‘This Is Not Surprising Or New’
GOP presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney said this week that President Obama’s comment to Russian president Dimitry Medvedev that he would be more “flexible” on issues such as missile defense until after the election was “a cave to Russia.” Romneywent on to attack the President’s plan in 2009 to scrap and replace President Bush’s European missile defense program. “The decision to withdrawal our missile defense sites from Poland put us in greater jeopardy in my view,” he said. Continue reading
Polish Defence Minister at NATO Defence Ministers Meeting in Brussels
On the first day of the meeting (2nd February) Polish Defence Minister Tomasz Siemoniak participated in a meeting organised by the US Secretary of Defence Loen Panetta for defence ministers of NATO member states participating in ISAF operation. Among others preparations for the Chicago NATO summit, support for ANSF and NATO presence in Afghanistan after finishing transition process, what, according to the Lisbon summit is planned for 2014, were the subjects of discussion. Continue reading
Chief of Defence of Lithuania visits Poland
From January 26 to 28 Chief of Defence of Lithuania Lt Gen Arvydas Pocius was conducting a formal visit in Poland. Continue reading
Poland fears U.S. defense cuts make it vulnerable to Russia
Polish soldier killed in Afghan war
NATO Welcomes Enforcement Of US-Poland Ballistic Missile Defense Agreement
NATO has welcomed the coming into force of a Ballistic Missile Defense Agreement that the United States and Poland signed in 2008. Continue reading
Russia on U.S. missile plan: No Poland deployment
On Friday, May 20, Gen. Andrei Tretyak, head of the Armed Forces General Staff Main Operations Directorate (GOU), confirmed Russia’s position that the deployment of U.S. missile defense system poses a real threat to Russia’s nuclear deterrent. Continue reading
U.S. May Place Fighter Jets in Poland
President Barack Obama, set to visit Warsaw this month, will announce the details of a permanent move of U.S. Air Force F-16 fighter jets to Poland from the Aviano Air Base in Italy, the Polish press reports today. If the plan becomes reality, the move will irk Russia and may become a serious test of the quality of the reset in relations between Washington and Moscow, as well as those between Moscow and Warsaw. Continue reading
Polish naval command makes NATO history
Making history is not something every commander can say when they hand over the rotational lead of one of NATO’s maritime groups. For Commander Krzysztof Jan Rybak, completing a year at the helm of NATO’s Standing Mine Countermeasures Maritime Group 1 (SNMCMG1), meant he was the first ever Pole to lead Alliance ships. Continue reading
Polish ship to take part in NATO anti-terrorist operation
The Polish multitask logistic support ship Kontradmiral Xawery Czernicki will take part in NATO’ s Active Endeavour anti-terrorist operation in the Mediterranean in connection with the crisis in North Africa, the Polish president’s chancellery said on Thursday. Continue reading
