The improvement of Ukraine's defense capability, the transition to NATO standards, as well as the reform of the country's military and industrial complex and the mobilization system, should be based on the experience of the anti-terrorist operation (ATO).
Such proposals are set out in a draft coalition agreement, which was published on the Web site of the Bloc of Petro Poroshenko on Oct. 29.
In particular, the document proposes declaring the reform of the national security and defense system, the development and adoption of new wording of the national security strategy and military doctrine given changes in the military and political situation around Ukraine, and the reform of the whole system of mobilization preparations and mobilization of Ukraine, taking into account the peculiarities of armed aggression in modern conditions.
“[The coalition agreement proposes] a transition to the new structure of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, in particular, Special Operations Force, Immediate Response Force, Build-Up Force, Reserve Force, as well as Combat Duty Forces and Means,” reads the draft agreement.
The document also proposes declaring the “restoration of the military infrastructure, the revision of the location of permanent bases of formations and units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, in particular, with a view to permanent military presence in the east of the state.”
“The formation on the basis of military camps of autonomous military bases with the necessary infrastructure for the location of military units and with the housing stock and social infrastructure for military personnel and their families, the improvement of the mobilization system by creating the necessary number of military registration and enlistment offices and their employees, as well as a creation of the single state register of persons liable for military service, a gradual transition to NATO standards (STANAG),” reads the document.
