Proces przygotowań dowództwa Komponentu Wojsk Specjalnych do pełnienia dyżuru w Siłach Odpowiedzi NATO – perspektywa Centrum Szkolenia Sił Połączonych (JFTC) NATO
The process of preparing the Polish Special Operations Component Command to stand-by duty in the NATO Response Force – the point of view of the NATO Joint Force Training Centre

Summary/Abstract: Joint Force Training Centre (JFTC) in Bydgoszcz, is one of the two NATO training centres. JFTC’s mission is to conduct training and exercises for tactical-level commands (includingcomponent commands and single service commands), in order to prepare them to participatein joint (multi-component) allied operations, also in the role of the Joint Task Force Headquarters in smaller joint operations. Between 2012 and 2014 JFTC was intensively cooperating with the Polish Special Forces Command (POL SOFCOM), engaging (todifferent extent) in four POL SOFCOM exercises and a number of courses, conferencesand seminars, aimed at preparing POL SOFCOM to the role of the core (the Framework Nation) of the Allied Special Operations Component Command (SOCC). This article attempts to summarize the cooperation between the JFTC and POL SOFCOM, describe the course of the exercises, in organization and conduct of which JFTC and its staff were engaged. It also under takes to analyse the process of preparing POL SOFCOM to its honourablerole in the 2015 NATO Response Force stand-by, as well as the most important – inauthor’s view – conclusions from the endeavours which culminated in the certification of POL SOFCOM to the role of Special Operations Component Command of the NATO Response Force. Due to the post occupied by the author with in the JFTC and related role which he played during the exercises and endeavours associated with them, a significant part of this article is devoted to discuss the legal aspects thereof.

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