Around a decade ago at the Singapore Air Show the executive of a major US defence company told me more than once “my best sales agents are the Chinese. Every time they make a public show of steaming their aircraft carrier out for sea trials or commit another one of their violations of some nation’s territorial waters or build up another one of their artificial islands – that’s when my phone starts ringing. Other nations in the region suddenly want to know how soon they could have some US-made military hardware, especially if they are EDA [Excess Defence Articles].”
Autor: Reuben F. Johnson
Opublikowano: 18/06/2026
Todays near standoff between the Philippines and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in the Scarborough Shoal is a reminder that over time foreign policy mistakes only expand in their complexity and negative implications.
Autor: Reuben F. Johnson
Opublikowano: 23/04/2026
Cheng Li-wun, Kuomintang’s (KMT – current Taiwanese opposition) leader, just concluded her April 7-12 visit to People’s Republic of China.
Autor: Krzysztof Kozłowski
Opublikowano: 14/04/2026
The Casimir Pulaski Foundation’s Asia Research Center initiative endeavoured to spearhead the research into joint perspectives between Poland and the Asia-Pacific.
Opublikowano: 23/02/2026
Recent events in relation to Greenland struck a lot of controversy and provoked many reactions. The subject isn’t new as the first time Donald Trump publicly admitted that the US should try to acquire Greenland was 18th August 2019. That day, he confirmed he was considering an attempt to buy Greenland and added that it “would be strategically nice [for the USA to own]”.
Autor: Jagoda Synowiec
Opublikowano: 10/02/2026
Following the publication of U.S. and Ukraine-Europe’s proposed frameworks for resolving the Russia–Ukraine conflict in April 2025, and under pressure from Washington on both Kyiv and Moscow, the two sides agreed to launch direct negotiations in Istanbul on 15 May.
Autor: Jakub Wilczyński
Opublikowano: 15/10/2025
In late August 2025, US President Donald Trump held a summit in the White House Oval Office with the Republic of Korea (ROK) President, Lee Jae Myung. The encounter was not just an ordinary, regular meeting between the heads of state of the US and the ROK, the country being a long-time valued and stalwart US ally. It was seen by many as a crucial interaction for the recently elected South Korean leader.
Autor: Reuben F. Johnson
Opublikowano: 09/09/2025
Autor: Rafał Lipka, Reuben F. Johnson
Opublikowano: 01/09/2025
In the final year of World War I, The Supreme Allied Commander was the French Marshal Ferdinand Foch, who is generally considered as the military leader most responsible for the Allied victory in the conflict. He was a disciple of the Napoleon school of military thought, was sometimes compared to the famous French military genius and upon his death was buried next to Napoleon himself at Les Invalides in Paris.
Autor: Reuben F. Johnson
Opublikowano: 31/07/2025
After more than two and a half years of war, Putin’s military had been consuming artillery rounds and other materiel at a rate that was well above the normal production tempo of Russia’s domestic ammunition suppliers.
Autor: Reuben F. Johnson
Opublikowano: 30/06/2025
In a surprise decision, LOT Polish Airlines have shunned their long-time supplier, Brazil’s Embraer, and have instead signed a massive order for the Airbus A220 to fill the company’s regional jet fleet requirement.
Autor: Reuben F. Johnson
Opublikowano: 18/06/2025
The report presents a forward-looking framework for combining strategic procurement with industrial renewal. It shows how, through targeted collaboration with experienced international partners, Poland can not only field a modern submarine fleet but also cultivate an innovation-driven maritime ecosystem—strengthening long-term economic resilience and national autonomy.
Autor: Rafał Lipka & Sebastian Czub
Opublikowano: 30/04/2025
Autor: Olga Jastrzębska
Opublikowano: 29/08/2024
The Russian-Ukrainian war should instigate the change processes not only in the area of acquiring equipment and building integrated command systems but also in a faster implementation of the MC philosophy, using the Ukrainian experience, but also the Western, where the MC is implemented for two decades.
Autor: Maciej Milczanowski
Opublikowano: 01/07/2024
The aim of the project Norway and Poland as actors in a changing security landscape (NORPOLFACTOR) is to develop enhanced knowledge of the security-related challenges, risks and threats Poland and Norway face in their strategic environment in the aftermath of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
Autor: Jakub M. Godzimirski, Tomasz Smura, Ole Martin Stormoen, Damian Szacawa, Kacper Szulecki
Opublikowano: 04/06/2024
The only durable solution for stability in the region is a political resolution to both Palestinian and Yemeni conflicts.
Autor: Witold Repetowicz
Opublikowano: 30/01/2024
The most likely scenario in cross-strait relations after the elections is the maintenance of the status quo with varying degrees of pressure on the island, depending on the final result. However, the possibility of Beijing using the elections as a pretext for escalation to force the Taipei government into reunification talks cannot be ruled out.
Autor: Tomasz Smura
Opublikowano: 12/01/2024
The large-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine at the beginning of 2022 has surprised many experts and is a consistent, heavy reminder to the European people that war in Europe is not a matter of the past.
Autor: Bartłomiej Kucharski, Dariusz Materniak, Paulina Zamelek i Andrzej Kozłowski
Opublikowano: 19/09/2023
On March 19, the Russian Federation attacked a Ukrainian aerial ammunition depot, located in the Ivano-Frankivsk region, using aeroballistic KINZHAL missiles. Since the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine, Russia has also used ballistic and cruise missile systems. These missiles were mainly used in the initial phase of hostilities against Ukraine’s military infrastructure, although it seems that their sheer scale of use was far from sufficient from a military point of view. It is therefore worth asking what conclusions can be drawn from the use of such systems in the first three weeks of the conflict.
Autor: Rafał Ciasto
Opublikowano: 22/03/2022
A comprehensive reform of the Polish Armed Forces, announced over a year ago, has significantly accelerated since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine. The Homeland Defence Act (HDA) was first announced by the government in October 2021.
Autor: Michał Oleksiejuk
Opublikowano: 18/03/2022
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) released a statement on Sunday that it has attacked "Israeli Mossad training centers" in the Iraqi Kurdistan Autonomous Region with precision-guided ballistic missiles. The IRGC said the operation was in response to the Israeli killing (also in a rocket attack) of two Iranian military advisers on the outskirts of Damascus, Syria, on Monday, March 7.
Autor: Jakub Gajda
Opublikowano: 14/03/2022
After 7 days of the military campaign initiated by the Russian aggression against Ukraine, the situation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces is deteriorating, the Russians, despite the losses and the unsatisfactory general course of the campaign, are consistently pursuing their operational goals, i.e. encircling Kiev from the west and east.
Autor: Tomasz Smura
Opublikowano: 03/03/2022
Russian aggression against Ukraine continues. The second day of the conflict, like the first one, began with massive missile attacks on Ukrainian military targets (e.g. air defence systems). The land offensive continued along all operational axis.
Autor: Tomasz Smura
Opublikowano: 26/02/2022
For years after the Cold War invading one its neighbours had been deemed largely unthinkable. That is, until Moscow’s military rolled across the border of Georgia in August 2008 and seized two provinces which it still occupies today. A similar land grab of Ukrainian territory was fraught with horrendous consequences. In 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded both Crimea and the Eastern Donbas regions. To this day the latter remains a war zone with massive devastation throughout and more than 13,000 persons killed – 25 per cent of those being civilians.
Autor: Reuben F. Johnson, Research Fellow at Security and Defence Programme of Casimir Pulaski Foundation
Opublikowano: 13/05/2021
Only those, who want to practice the three wise monkeys pose (see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil) can continue pretending that a direct confrontation with Russia is not upon us. No exercise in wishful thinking can obscure the threat to the post-Cold War stability, brought about by Russia’s recent actions targeting Ukraine, the West and international norms in general.
Autor: Robert Pszczel
Opublikowano: 21/04/2021
