“Today, we’re taking the next steps in our alliance,” U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said. “The deputy prime minister and I will sign a statement of intent to increase bilateral defense and industrial cooperation scale and speed in real time.”
Kosiniak-Kamysz said officials from both countries were in talks on strengthening the permanent U.S. military presence in Poland. He thanked Hegseth for work to implement President Donald Trump’s declaration on deploying another 5,000 U.S. soldiers to the country.
“I am convinced that the details will be announced publicly very soon,” Kosiniak-Kamysz said of the troop talks. He said Poland was spending nearly 5% of its gross domestic product on defense and cited Russia’s continued aggression against Ukraine as one of the threats facing Europe.
Hegseth said Poland was strengthening its borders through investments in tanks, F-35 Lightning II strike fighters, AH-64 Apache helicopters and Patriot missile systems. “The core of the purchases consists of American-made weapon systems,” Kosiniak-Kamysz said.
Poland is set to host a European maintenance facility for Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) missiles, a decision Kosiniak-Kamysz said would help protect NATO’s eastern flank. The facility is intended to shorten turnaround times and strengthen supply lines by bringing maintenance, repair and overhaul work into Europe.
Hegseth held up Poland as an example of the role he wants European allies to play under an approach known as NATO 3.0. Under that concept, Europe would take primary responsibility for its conventional defense, allowing the United States to reduce its troop presence on the continent and shift attention to other regions, including the Pacific.
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