ve study presents issues related to legal, moral and civic responsibility of shaping the quality of defence duties in Poland aqer the suspension of general obligation of military service. In public awareness of Poles, there emerged a new axiological problem that draws attention to the decline of participation of traditional military duty. On 11 February 2009, another, and at the same time signitcant in political, social and economic consequences, amendment to the act of 21 November 1967 on general obligation to defend the Republic of Poland entered into force. In political, legal and military dimension it was an act of sending to the reserve all citizens who have not performed the military service yet, breaking the historical continuity of conscription for the army that dated back the trst moments of functioning of the reborn Second Polish Republic. ve suspension of performing the compulsory military service − from 1 January 2010 led to quick introduction of the professional army in Poland. It turned out that there was an exceptionally quick “dissection” from the civic awareness of the necessity to shape military virtue, perpetuating instead: depreciation of pro-defensive behaviour (laboriously formed over the period of several dozen years); selectivity of shaping military skills and reconstructing/forming trained military reserves that are appropriate in terms of quality and number. Poland is the only European country that has a “small constitution of defence”, the origin of which dates back to the 60s, i.e. the time of the climax of the Cold War and the plan of the defence system typical of the “second wave army”. Permanent recalling in the legislative process in Poland aqer the political transformation as the basis for new regulations in the area of safety and defence of the country the legislative act − from almost half a century − evokes mixed feelings. vis invokes a sense of vagueness in relation to the country’s defence policy and the role of the “third wave armed forces”, by detnition corresponding to concepts of actions and means typical of the art of war of the information era, supported by proper modern normative solutions.