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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">cndcgs</journal-id>
      <journal-title-group>
        <journal-title>Challenges to national defence in contemporary geopolitical situation</journal-title>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="epub">2538-8959</issn>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">2669-2023</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>LKA</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">34_CNDCGS_2022_264-274</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.47459/cndcgs.2022.34</article-id>
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        <article-title>Responding to evolving military threat. Development of Polish Armed Forces after 2014</article-title>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>CIEŚLAK</surname>
            <given-names>Eugeniusz</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:href="mailto:eugeniusz.cieslak@baltdefcol.org">eugeniusz.cieslak@baltdefcol.org</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_cndcgs_aff_000"/>
          <xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1">∗</xref>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_cndcgs_aff_000">Baltic Defence College, Estonia</aff>
      </contrib-group>
      <author-notes>
        <corresp id="cor1"><label>∗</label>Corresponding author.</corresp>
      </author-notes>
      <volume>2022</volume>
      <issue>1</issue>
      <fpage>264</fpage>
      <lpage>274</lpage>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>31</day>
        <month>10</month>
        <year>2022</year>
      </pub-date>
      <permissions>
        <license license-type="open-access">
          <license-p>Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY)</license-p>
        </license>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <p>The article describes development and technical modernization of the Polish Armed Forces after 2014. It explores the linkage between development and modernization efforts and evolving military threat posed by Russia. Discussion on evolution of military threat posed by Russia constitutes a starting point for further analyses. Then, a comparative analysis of development and technical modernization plans adopted for Polish Armed Forces after 2014 and tangible results of modernization efforts undertaken during this period is presented. The article concludes with predictions on sustainability of development and modernization of the Polish Armed Forces.</p>
      </abstract>
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        <label>Keywords</label>
        <kwd>Polish Armed Forces</kwd>
        <kwd>military threat</kwd>
        <kwd>Russia</kwd>
        <kwd>technical modernization</kwd>
        <kwd>2014-</kwd>
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