System logistyczny Sił Zbrojnych RP wobec wymagań XXI wieku

The optimization of logistic system results from the need of complex regulation of problems stemming from transformations carried out in the Polish Armed Forces’ logistics and also from adjusting its structures to tasks, undertaken obligations, as well as organizational-functional changes both conducted and planned. The aim of the article is to present these changes taking place in the logistic service support of forces in peacetime, mainly through tasks performed by military logistics in accordance with the forces’ needs on all organizational levels. Undoubtedly, an essential factor that causes the necessity to implement changes and adjust the Polish Armed Forces’ logistic system is Poland’s membership in NATO and the European Union. This imposes the necessity to undertake constant activities aiming at, among others, complex integration of the Polish Armed Forces’ logistic system with NATO military structures, mainly its procedures in order to gain a necessary level of standardization and unification. A general goal of this process is to increase military forces’ effectiveness and raise availability of using defence resources of the Member States. Getting rid of incorrectness in the Polish Armed Forces’ logistics is conducted successively, basing on the Minister’s of National Defence orders, provisions in the Polish Armed Forces’ development programmes and logistic development plans which set new or verify existing task and structural competence.