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NATO SACT Gen. James Mattis visits Polish General Staff
2008-06-24
On 24th June, NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Transformation and commander, U.S. Joint Forces Command Gen. James Mattis started a visit to Poland.
Gen. Mattis arrived to Poland at the invitation of chief of Staff General Gen. Franciszek Gągor. During the talks Gen. Mattis stressed that he is impressed with the pace of the transformation of the Polish army at both, allied and domestic levels, and added that NATO command values Polish contribution into ISAF operation.
As Gen. Gągor said, Polish transformation is based on national priorities, and as well on NATO and EU allied commitments. 'General Staff, as an institution responsible for strategic planning concludes works on “Program for development of the Polish Armed Forces in the years 2009-2018”. Our priorities, aimed at obtaining particular capabilities of Polish Armed Forces are the achievements of: effective, integrated command and reconnaissance systems, advanced, deployable logistic system, and interoperability and deployability of forces. Poland actively participates in the Alliance’s transformation process. We increase our deployments to the operation in Afghanistan and NRF needs, and have accepted as well all the proposed NATO forces’ goals for the year 2008', Gagor concluded. Referring to the ACT Multiple Futures project, chief of SG announced that NATO working workshops organized as part of this initiative are to take place in Poland in November this year.
The agenda of the Gen. Mattis’s visit also includes observing combat shooting at the Wicko Pomorskie training ground and a visit to NATO Joint Force Training Centre in Bydgoszcz.
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The Allied Command Transformation is the second strategic command NATO centre along with Allied Command Operation (ACO) in Mons. It was established in 2003 as one of the Alliance summit’s resolutions in Prague in November 2002 with the aim of implementing tasks connected with its transformation. NATO ACT objective is to provide capabilities for carrying out effective operation in any part of the globe. The project MULTIPLE FUTURES has been launched in order to identify and prevent possible threats in the 25-years’ time perspective and assumes devising a series of “possible scenarios of the future”, which will help develop Alliance military capabilities for the oncoming years.
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