Miejsce i rola sił społeczno-politycznych w edukacji obronnej społeczeństwa

The place and role of governmental and non-governmental social - political institutions and organisations in the population’s defence education have been presented in the article. The leading idea of the article is the assumption that population’s defence education has been acquiring a specific significance as it has been of vital importance for the security of the state. It is unquestionable that state security depends largely on its citizens’ knowledge and awareness. The mentioned above thesis results from the fact that using a large educational, training and organisational potential, and also equipment and terrain base that political and social powers have on their disposal, poses a task for the whole population, in particular for bodies responsible for the state security. The task for us all, the whole population, is to conduct changes in the social conscience so that such an understanding would exist like in the time of the Second Polish Republic when defence preparation organisations existed due to the population’s need of their functioning.