Bartosz Grodecki, chief of the presidential National Security Bureau (BBN), said the matter had come up in his talks with Pentagon policy undersecretary Elbridge Colby.
"We should be more proactive on the transatlantic front and simply present the Americans with a concrete, prepared offer regarding the permanent presence of U.S. forces on our soil", Grodecki told the Defence24 portal.
He acknowledged the proposal would require significant infrastructure investment but said no such cost was beyond Poland's means given the current security environment in Europe.
Grodecki also described President Donald Trump's May 21 announcement of an additional 5,000 U.S. troops for Poland as a personal success for newly elected Polish President Karol Nawrocki. He said the deployment carried both a practical defense value and a symbolic signal to Moscow, which he called the greatest threat to Europe.
"I would like to read that declaration literally — meaning an additional five thousand on top of what we already have", Grodecki said, noting that even if the figure reflected rotational replacements, the final number would still exceed current levels. The Pentagon has yet to finalize the details.
Trump linked the troop announcement to his relationship with Nawrocki and the latter's election victory. The announcement came shortly after reports that the Pentagon had scrapped plans to rotationally deploy 4,000 soldiers to Poland.
Last week, Polish Deputy Defense Ministers Cezary Tomczyk and Paweł Zalewski traveled to Washington. Zalewski told the Washington Times that Poland had already tabled an infrastructure offer for a permanent U.S. base capable of housing troops and their families.
"We will have to build a small city with fully independent infrastructure", Zalewski said. "We are ready to do it".
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Source: PAP