The process of planning the number of candidates for officers to the military higher education institutions with the consideration of the needs of the Polish Armed Forces

One of the activities of the Ministry of National Defense is concern for the quality of education and the number of officers who annually enters the service in military units. These actions are now of greater importance, since the Ministry of National Defense clearly increases the number of Polish soldiers. This is mainly due to the formation of the Territorial Defense Forces and the urgent need to supplement the personnel status in operational units envisaged for cooperation under the so-called reinforcement of the eastern flank. In view of this, the Ministry of National Defense conducts annual work to determine the number of candidates for professional soldiers who, in the future, after fulfilling many formal and substantive requirements, will swell the ranks of the officer cadre. In this publication, the author discusses the procedures involved in drafting legislation regulating the limits of admission of candidates for professional soldiers to military higher education institutions that educate future second lieutenants to serve in the Armed Forces.