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Poland's military has initiated preemptive operations to secure Polish airspace, the step taken in direct response to Russian missile strikes on Ukraine.
The operative word in the announcement is preemptive: this is a forward posture, not a scramble triggered by an incursion already underway. Worth sitting with that distinction.
A reactive air-defense response and a preemptive one reflect fundamentally different threat assessments.
When Polish military command decides to secure its airspace before any crossing occurs, rather than after, it is making a judgment that the pace or proximity of Russian missile activity makes the standard reactive posture insufficient.
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