The article analyzes the process of strategic troop deployment using the example of the Polish Military Contingent in the Republic of Iraq, which consists of planning and preparing for the deployment, executing the deployment via sea and air transport, and organizing transport bridges and the RSOM process. Based on the conducted analyses, conclusions and recommendations regarding the organization of troop deployment to distant theaters of operations were formulated.The American proposal inviting Poland to participate in the mission, and above all to command a multinational division and manage one of the four stabilization zones in Iraq, posed a huge challenge for our state and many of its structures, and primarily for the armed forces. By taking on such a huge challenge, the Polish side took a great risk, as little was known about the future role of our division: hostilities in the mission area were still ongoing, the location of the future area of operations was unknown, and we did not have a division in the country that could independently perform this task. Furthermore, a great unknown was which countries’ forces we would be co-creating the division with and conducting stabilization operations together. (…)
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Source: Logistyka Magazine