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This JPRS translation, dated 1 May 1993 and released by the Central Intelligence Agency, reproduces an article by Col. Marian Kopczewski of Poland's Higher Officers School of Antiaircraft Defense. The article appeared in a Polish air force and air defense journal. Kopczewski assesses the military threats Poland faces from its neighbors after the Warsaw Pact dissolved. He argues for restructuring Polish air defense into separate peacetime and wartime systems. He notes that during the Cold War any unidentified flying object was once taken as the start of World War III.
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# Concatenated JPRS Reports, 1993 Document 2 of 19 Page 6 30. -Concentrating the air-defense effort in the principal regions and directions of the threat. 31. -Continuously responding to enemy attacks over the entire national territory and far beyond its boundaries. 32. -Highly effectively destroying the enemy's air strength at various altitudes and air speeds. 33. -Combating the enemy's air strength in the presence of considerable radio-electronic noise. 34. -Flexibly operating the forces and resources of the air-defense system. 35. Considering the political and military situation in Europe and the role and requirements of the air-defense system, its restructuring in the countries of Central Europe is a necessity that brooks no delay. In view of its geopolitical position in Europe, Poland should show initiative in developing a model air-defense system of its own. That initiative in abandoning whatever is outworn and unsuited to the formation of a European security system could provide an example to other countries. Its announcement could be yet another stage in making credible the goals of the military policy of Poland, which wants to build its own armed forces, with the object of maintaining a state of armed neutrality. 36. A broad analysis of European political-military, operational, and economic conditions warrants considering a gradual 'civilian conversion'' of that part of the air-defense system that accomplishes its objectives in peacetime. Taking that initiative requires organizing and maintaining two institutionally separate air-defense systems: the peacetime and the wartime ones. 37. Such an organizationally dual air-defense system should cope with the following requirements: 38. -It should assure in peacetime effective monitoring and control of Polish airspace and act as a deterrent to eventual airspace violators (oppose acts of air terror). 39. -It should retain combat readiness to oppose an air threat in the event of armed aggression against Poland. 40. The peacetime air-defense system should be prepared to accomplish the following objectives:
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 9 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.