Czy wymuszanie decyzji politycznych przez użycie lotnictwa (sił zbrojnych) to nowość?

The article is a polemic towards some statements included in the conference theses which are according to the author at least controversial. This particularly refers to the thesis that “(...) there are created new formulas of military operations political goals and forms of using armed forces in operations connected with reaching these goals. The goals may be defined as ‘enforcing of political decisions’ by using armed forces”. The main idea of the article is the development of the political goals problem to use armed forces on the background of “international relations practice and basic theoretical assumptions". The presented analyses prove that this is not a completely new problem, although it was formed in a slightly different way. Despite differences in some researches’ opinions, there exists a common acceptance of the thesis that the military component of the state organisations is one of the main instruments of its policy and that military instruments are used in a direct and indirect way. Other political instruments are also worth remembering, i.e. non-military and political and military. The latter ones include for instance control of nuclear weapon proliferation, defence education, joint exercises and defence diplomacy.