THE APPLICATION OF STRATEGIC ANALYSIS IN MARITIME SECURITY DEVELOPMENT

The study presented here is of interdisciplinary nature because it combines prob-lems from the field of security sciences with methods and tools applied in management and quality sciences. It proves the functionality of strategic analysis applied to strengthen and develop maritime security of the State. A reference point to the analysis discussed in the study is Poland’s Strategic Concept for Maritime Security which provides a comprehensive definition of numerous notions and problems necessary to perform it. The recommendations provided in the above-mentioned document have been verified on the basis of the result of the strategic analysis. The result, in turn, determines a scope of actions that should be undertaken. The scope should be understood as a strategic option that comes as a stage of a long-term process, the further stages of which result from a periodic revision of the strate-gic analysis that can come from some possible changes in the environment of the analysed entity/State and from the evolution of its strengths and weaknesses. Resulting from the analysis, the strategic options allow the strategy to be implemented in the forms of pro-grammes for the modernisation of the naval forces, operations undertaken in the field of maritime critical infrastructure, non-military operations undertaken by the State admin-istration and maritime economy to improve maritime security. The results of the particular stages of the strategic analysis come as the outcome of the Author’s original work.