Selected aspects of military logistics support to public administration in eliminating the effects of crisis situations. Part II. Possibilities of Using Engineering Troops in Crisis Situations

Part I presented the characteristics of non-military crisis situations, including natural threats and technical failures, terrorist threats, hybrid activities and disturbance of public order. The specified crisis situations imply specific actions of the public administration, which carries out its mission on the basis of national and international legal regulations. However, the forces and resources of the civil administration are not always able to provide assistance to all victims of crisis situations, in accordance with the applicable procedures. The implementation of procedures for providing aid and liquidating the effects of crisis situations requires specific, logistically prepared forces and resources.The legal regulations introduced on the basis of experience make it possible to use military forces to provide logistical support to the administration in crisis situations.Hence, in the second part of the article, the authors focused on presenting and familiarizing the reader with the possibility of using the Armed Forces in logistic support of civil administration, with particular emphasis on engineering troops and their support components, prepared to eliminate the effects of crisis situations

Security Aspects of Improvised Explosive Devices. The Ukrainian Case Study

Though Improvised Explosive Devices IEDs are commonly attributed to attacks carried out by terrorists in the Middle East IEDs were also used in the Ukrainian conflict and extremely limited research touches upon the issue There is a hypothesis that IED events were not mainly focused on killing but rather on striking terror and sowing chaos among the local populace to persuade it to withdraw its support for the Ukrainian government This article presents an analysis of IEDs as a unique weapon the possible intensions behind their occurrence in Ukraine at a particular point in time and the methods of identifying IED use in Ukraine based on the Global Terrorism Database GTD and the authors database TAD Both the imprecision and uncertainty relative to GTD s classification were discussed as it served only as the starting point for data evaluation yielding informative results although containing little information related to the IEDs directl

Preliminary effects of fertilization on ecochemical soil condition in mature spruce stands experiencing dieback in the Beskid Śla̧ski and Żywiecki Mountains, Poland

In recent years, there has been the phenomena of spruce dieback in Europe. Significant areas of spruce low mortality now cover both sides of the Polish southern border. We evaluated ecochemical parameters influencing the heavy dieback occurring in mature spruce stands in the Polish Carpathian Mountains. Dolomite, magnesite and serpentinite fertilizers were applied to experimental plots located in 100-year-old stands in the autumn of 2008. The experimental plots were located in the mid-elevational forest zone (900-950 m) on two nappes of the flysch Carpathians: Magura (Ujsoły Forest District) and Silesian (Wisła Forest District). The saturation of the studied soils demonstrates moderate resilience of soils in Wisła Forest District in relation to acid load and high flexibility of the Ujsoły soils. After application of the fertilizers, an increase of Mg, Ca and Mb was noted in the soil solution, determined in the overlaying highly acidic organic horizons through the ion-exchange buffering mechanism of highly protonated functional groups with high buffering capacity. Magnesium concentration increased following fertilization, presenting a potential improvement of forest growth capacity without the hazard of adverse side effects of liming. Aluminium stress in old spruce is unlikely, while trees in the control plots in Wisła Forest District may already be sensitive to aluminium stress. Serpentinite fertilization improved the supply of soils in magnesium without causing significant changes in the pH of the soil. Such changes in the pH were found in dolomite and magnesite fertilizer. © The Author(s) 2014

O harmonijny rozwój człowieka. Myśl pedagogiczna Profesora Andrzeja Jaczewskiego

Z wprowadzenia: "Andrzej Jaczewski, Profesor Honorowy Krakowskiej Akademii im. Andrzeja Frycza Modrzewskiego w Krakowie, uczony, który we wrześniu b.r. ukończy 90. rok życia, to najstarszy i jeden z nielicznych obecnie autorytetów naukowych w dziedzinie badań nad rozwojem seksualnym dzieci i młodzieży. Jego działalność sytuuje się na pograniczu nauk medycznych i pedagogicznych."(...

SELECTED ASPECTS OF MILITARY LOGISTIC SUPPORT TO PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN ELIMINATING THE EFFECTS OF CRISIS SITUATIONS

In part I, the article presents the characteristics of non-military crisis situations, including natural threats and technical failures, terrorist threats, hybrid activities and disturbance of public order. The specified crisis situations imply specific actions of the public administration, which carries out its mission on the basis of national and international legal regulations. However, the forces and resources of the civil administration are not always able to provide assistance to all victims of crisis situations, in accordance with the applicable procedures. The implementation of procedures for providing aid and liquidating the effects of crisis situations requires specific, logistically prepared forces and resources.The legal regulations introduced on the basis of experience, including Poland's membership in NATO, enable the use of military forces to provide logistical support to the administration in crisis situations, under the so-called crisis logistics.Hence, the second part of the article presents the legal basis for the use of the Armed Forces in the logistic support of the civil administration, with particular emphasis on engineering troops and their support components, prepared for the liquidation of the consequences of crisis situations

TEACHING QUALITY AT WAR STUDIES UNIVERSITY – DETERMINANTS AND CHALLENGES

W opracowaniu przedstawiono identyfikację uwarunkowań i wyzwań determinujących jakość kształcenia w Akademii Sztuki Wojennej. Publikacja zawiera wyniki dociekań autora obejmujące kwestie zapewniania jakości kształcenia w Akademii Sztuki Wojennej. Podnoszenie jakości kształcenia ma charakter permanentnego działania wszystkich nauczycieli, pracowników administracyjnych, studentów, słuchaczy i doktorantów. Wprowadzenie w ASzWoj nowego Uczelnianego Systemu Zapewnienia Jakości Kształcenia na rzecz ciągłej poprawy jakości kształcenia obejmuje: wizję Akademii w zakresie jakości kształcenia, funkcje, cele i zadania Systemu Zapewnienia Jakości Kształcenia i jego strukturę, instrumenty służącerealizacji systemu.The paper identifies the determinants and challenges for teaching quality and presents the results of the scientific research on the issues of providing teaching quality at War Studies University. Enhancing teaching quality is a permanent activity performed by all teachers, administration workers, students of the first and second-cycle studies, as well as postgraduate and PhD studies. While implementing the new University Teaching Quality Assurance System which aims at constant improvement of teaching quality, one should consider: University vision of teaching quality, functions, goals and tasks for Teaching Quality Assurance System, its structure and instruments necessary to establish this System

Selected Aspects of Military Logistic Support to Public Administration in Eliminating the Effects of Crisis Situations

In part I, the article presents the characteristics of non-military crisis situations, including natural threats and technical failures, terrorist threats, hybrid activities and disturbance of public order. The specified crisis situations imply specific actions of the public administration, which carries out its mission on the basis of national and international legal regulations. However, the forces and resources of the civil administration are not always able to provide assistance to all victims of crisis situations, in accordance with the applicable procedures. The implementation of procedures for providing aid and liquidating the effects of crisis situations requires specific, logistically prepared forces and resources. The legal regulations introduced on the basis of experience, including Poland's membership in NATO, enable the use of military forces to provide logistical support to the administration in crisis situations, under the so-called crisis logistics. Hence, the second part of the article presents the legal basis for the use of the Armed Forces in the logistic support of the civil administration, with particular emphasis on engineering troops and their support components, prepared for the liquidation of the consequences of crisis situations

Selected aspects of military logistics support to public administration in eliminating the effects of crisis situations. Part II. Possibilities of Using Engineering Troops in Crisis Situations

Part I presented the characteristics of non-military crisis situations, including natural threats and technical failures, terrorist threats, hybrid activities and disturbance of public order. The specified crisis situations imply specific actions of the public administration, which carries out its mission on the basis of national and international legal regulations. However, the forces and resources of the civil administration are not always able to provide assistance to all victims of crisis situations, in accordance with the applicable procedures. The implementation of procedures for providing aid and liquidating the effects of crisis situations requires specific, logistically prepared forces and resources. The legal regulations introduced on the basis of experience make it possible to use military forces to provide logistical support to the administration in crisis situations. Hence, in the second part of the article, the authors focused on presenting and familiarizing the reader with the possibility of using the Armed Forces in logistic support of civil administration, with particular emphasis on engineering troops and their support components, prepared to eliminate the effects of crisis situations

CHALLENGES TO CIVIL PROTECTION IN TIMES OF FUTURE WARS

Ukraine which is experiencing the war is an exemplification of the state that requires urgent military, material (e.g.: reconstruction of infrastructure) and first of all humanitarian aid. The aim of the paper is to identify task for civil protections in the future war environment and consequently suggest how to organize the civil protection to face the new realities. The emergency/humanitarian operations in Ukraine prove that delivering any aid should be coordinated by the centers/units consisting of the representatives of all sectors responsible for providing security to citizens. This units would ensure higher effectiveness and minimize/eliminate tasks duplication. The method applied for this research is a case study of the Russian - Ukrainian war (2022) with a focus on civilians, critical infrastructure and assistance provided as the referral points of the analysis. The concept of ecosystem as a multi-actor network and the concept of fractal organization are the theoretical base for the analysis