Planowanie, programowanie i tworzenie budżetu (PPBS)

PPBS introduced new analytic techniques and a new rationalised approach to defence and economic planning into management theory and practice. The aim of PPBS is to form a plan, programme and, finally, the budget for the ministry of defence. Each PPBS stage is constructed to provide a product of its activity to a defined date. Therefore it was possible to discuss them in separate parts of the article. Both the stages and, briefly, eleven basic PPBS programmes have been described. PPBS begins with the definition of a national military strategy, and ends with forming a defence budget. In reality, however, it is a continuous process. The system under discussion enables maintaining national security and supporting the aims of foreign policy from a few up to nineteen years ahead. That is why, recently, not only the decision makers but also politicians have been referring to it in matters concerning planning, budget and strategy. Thus the discussed system should be taken into consideration as an essential element in all kinds of works on improving or constructing the Polish system of defence planning which is expressed in the most explicit and important way by the defence budget in the parliament. PPBS allows to rationalise the choice of defence tasks, which is also one of its basic tasks.