Ministry of National Defence (Poland)

Ministry of National Defence (Poland)
Ministry of National Defence (Polish: Ministerstwo Obrony Narodowej, MON) is the office of government in Poland under the Minister of National Defence. It is responsible for the organisation and management of the Polish Armed Forces. During the Second Polish Republic and World War II it was called the Ministry of Military Affairs (Ministerstwo Spraw Wojskowych). Ministry budget for 2022 was 140 billion PLN.
History
The beginning of the Ministry of Defence's operations is connected with the 1775 establishment of the Military Department within the Permanent Council. In 1789, the Military Commission of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was established, and from the Constitution of 3 May 1791 was under the Guardians of the Laws. Between 1793-94, the department was restored in the Supreme National Council. When Warsaw became part of the Kingdom of Prussia after the Third Partition of Poland in 1795), the Prussian Ministry of War headquarters was moved into the local Copper-Roof Palace. Another War Ministry was established in the Duchy of Warsaw. After the establishment of the Stanisław Małachowski government on 5 October 1807, the War Directorate became the Minister of War.
From 1807 to 1810, the number of ministry officials increased from a dozen to over one hundred. The ministry's activities ceased on 4 May 1813. In 1814, the Military Organizing Committee was established in Paris to regulate the military affairs of the Kingdom of Poland in 1815. After the November Uprising and the introduction of the Organic Statute of the Kingdom of Poland in the early 1830s, the distinctiveness of the Polish defence establishment from the Ministry of War of the Russian Empire ceased to exist. On 30 January 1917, the Provisional Council of State created an acting military commission, which was to deal with Polish military matters until a war office was organised.
On 2 November 1918, the commission was transformed into the Ministry of Military Affairs, based at the Copper-Roof Palace. During the London emigration of Polish power during World War II, on November 30, 1942, the name of the Ministry of Military Affairs was changed to the Ministry of National Defence. In 1944, under the Polish Committee of National Liberation under the communists controlled a National Defence Centre to manage the war front. After the war, the Provisional Government of National Unity (TRJN) reestablished the Military Affairs Ministry, which would be replaced by the Ministry of National Defence in 1979 and was under the Polish People's Army (LWP) in the People's Republic of Poland. The ministry would be transferred from the LWP to the Polish Army in 1990.
Organizational structure
The ministry includes political departments, Cabinet of the Minister and the following organizational units including units P1-P8 forming Polish General Staff:
Operational Centre
Administrative Department
Budget Department
Department of Education, Culture and Heritage
Department of Infrastructure
Personnel Department
Department of Control
Department of Cyber Security
Department of Protection of Classified Information
Department of International Security Policy
Armaments Policy Department
Law Department
Department of Social Affairs
Department of Strategy and Defence Planning
Department of Military Education
Department of Military Health Service
Department of Military Foreign Affairs
Office of the General Director
Office of the Minister of National Defence
Offset Contracts Office
Management Board of the Organization and Additions (P1)
Management of Intelligence and Reconnaissance Intelligence (P2)
Armed Forces Planning and Training Management Board (P3/P7)
Logistics Management (P4)
Management Board of Armed Forces Development Planning and Programming (P5)
Management and Command Board (P6)
Material Planning Board (P8)
Military Information Services
Internal Military Service
Military Intelligence Service
Units subordinate to the MON:
Armed Forces General Command
Operational Command
Support Command
Military Gendarmerie
Territorial Defence Force
Warsaw Garrison Command
National Centre for Kryptologii
Provincial Military Headquarters
Centre of Monitoring and Analysis
Inspectorate of Armaments
Innovative Defence Technology
Inspectorate of Military Fires
Military Centre for Standardization, Quality and Codification
Military Centre of Metrology
National Military Representative to NATO
Internal Audit for the Energy Sector
Military Technical Supervision
Military Studies of Teaching Foreign Languages
Central Military-Medical Commission
Military Pension Offices
House of the Retired Military Personnel (Warsaw)
Registration Office of the Polish Army
Ministers
Second Polish Republic
Brigadier general Edward Rydz-Śmigły (1918)
(acting) Major general Jan Wroczyński (1918–1919)
Major general Józef Leśniewski (1919–1920)
Major general Kazimierz Sosnkowski (1921–1923)
(acting) Major general Aleksander Osiński (1923)
Major general Władysław Sikorski (1924–1925)
Lieutenant general Lucjan Żeligowski (1925–1926)
Major general Juliusz Tadeusz Tarnawa-Malczewski (1926)
Marshal of Poland Józef Piłsudski (1926–1935)
Major general Tadeusz Kasprzycki (1935–1939)
Polish government-in-exile
Lieutenant general Władysław Sikorski (1939–1942)
Major general Marian Kukiel (1942–1944)
Republic of Poland / People's Republic of Poland
Marshal of Poland Michał Rola-Żymierski (1945–1949)
Marshal of Poland/Marshal of the Soviet Union Konstantin Rokossovsky (1949–1956)
Marshal of Poland Marian Spychalski (1956–1968)
Army General Wojciech Jaruzelski (1968–1983)
Army General Florian Siwicki (1983–1989)
Third Polish Republic
Army General Florian Siwicki (1989–1990)
Vice Admiral Piotr Kołodziejczyk (1990–1991)
Jan Parys (December 23, 1991 – 1992)
(acting) Romuald Szeremietiew (1992)
Janusz Onyszkiewicz (1992–1993)
Piotr Kołodziejczyk (1993–1994)
(acting) Jerzy Milewski (1994–1995)
Zbigniew Okoński (1995)
Stanisław Dobrzański (1996–1997)
Janusz Onyszkiewicz (1997–2000)
Bronisław Komorowski (2000–2001)
Jerzy Szmajdziński (October 19, 2001 – October 31, 2005)
Radosław Sikorski (October 31, 2005 – February 7, 2007)
Aleksander Szczygło (February 7, 2007 – November 16, 2007 excluding 7–9 October 2007)
Jarosław Kaczyński (7–9 October 2007 as Prime Minister and Minister of ND)
Bogdan Klich (November 16, 2007 – July 29, 2011)
Tomasz Siemoniak (August 2, 2011 – November 12, 2015)
Antoni Macierewicz (November 16, 2015 – January 9, 2018)
Mariusz Błaszczak (January 9, 2018 – present)
See also
Polish Armed Forces
Ministries of Poland
Wydawnictwo MON
References
External links
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