Szkolenie wojsk lądowych : doskonalenie systemu. Cz. 2

The political-military situation in Europe, internal conditions o f a country and a new organization and principles of functioning of the armed forces - these are the basic determinants enforcing a permanent verification and update of assumptions as well as forms and ways of training all the elements of defense system, especially the entities commanding the army. Military pragmatists and theoreticians have recently made substantial efforts to study the problem of commands and troops preparation to conduct combat activities. These efforts should result in new, fit for contemporary times, solutions in the training system of the Polish Armed Forces, including the subsystem of the Army training. This service, just like all other components of the armed forces, has been undergoing downsizing and reorganization. The aim of the reform formulated many years ago is still relevant and involves: increasing operational capabilities and mobility, introducing new structures and functional solutions adequate to the requirements of modern warfare, increasing professionalization and modernity. Despite the invariability of the main goal of training, the need for continuous adjusting the content of training to the actual conditions of its realization still exists. The former ideas reflecting the past should be replaced with the relevant new ones. If we do not adjust them, our actions will depart form reality and we will be less able to act effectively. This thesis of Alvin Toffler applied to our armed forces means the process of permanent improvement in every aspect of the army’s existence. Especially today, when the army is being prepared to operate abroad. The joint execution of military and nonmilitary tasks now and in the future requires the introduction of the professional armed forces ready to cope with these tasks. This readiness is possible to achieve only by permanent implementation (improvement) of the training process. Training has always been the main task of the armed forces in time of peace. It has been conducted to prepare the commands and armies to organize and wage operational-tactic actions in case of military conflict or war. All armies use national forms, methods and ways of training that have been worked out through the years and determined by tradition, the wealth of the country, the society’s attitude to military service and training base they have at their disposal. In the article the elements of the army training system in functional and organizational aspects are presented.