Party’s new thinking on strengthening the relationship between national defence and security and foreign affairs in the Strategy for Homeland Protection

Wednesday, June 26, 2024, 08:48 (GMT+7)
As an essential and consistent mission of the Party, people, Army, and political system in their entirety, national defence and security and foreign affairs are fundamental matters of high significance to the fate of our nation and people. Therefore, strengthening the relationship between these aspects in the Strategy for Homeland Protection is a matter of high importance, reflecting the Party’s strategic thinking and vision. This issue needs to be thoroughly grasped for the sake of practical effectiveness

Strengthen air defence capability to meet the requirements of the cause of defending the Motherland

Monday, October 23, 2023, 08:55 (GMT+7)
Enhancing air defence combat capabilities in the face of new combat conditions is a significant challenge, applicable during peacetime and wartime, involving various levels, branches, and forces. Therefore, it is necessary to implement a comprehensive set of solutions to create a foundation and conditions for leveraging the combined strength of various forces, with the core being the tri-element air defence force, to defeat potential enemy’s air offensives and contribute to the robust defence of the sky of the Motherland in the new situation.

“Hanoi – Dien Bien Phu in the air” Victory – its stature and historical lessons for the cause of Fatherland construction and defence

Sunday, December 18, 2022, 11:53 (GMT+7)
Although 50 years have elapsed, the spirit of the “Hanoi – Dien Bien Phu in the air” victory remains a great epic of the Vietnamese people’s will, courage, and wisdom under the Party’s leadership. Lessons learnt from this victory will continue to be researched, applied, and developed in the cause of building and protecting the Socialist Vietnamese Fatherland.

On the Party’s principle of defending the Motherland early and from afar

Wednesday, November 30, 2022, 07:43 (GMT+7)
Defending the Motherland early and from afar is the guiding thought, consistent view and action of our Party, our Army and our People; it is also our grand strategy and plan to defend the country today. Grasping and effectively implementing this strategy is realising the objective of defending the Motherland in peace time without having to wage war. This is also the ultimate strategy to safeguard Vietnam Socialist Motherland.

VPA to improve the effectiveness of strategic study, prediction, and advice to meet requirements and missions of safeguarding the Fatherland

Tuesday, August 23, 2022, 13:33 (GMT+7)
MND’s strategic-level advisory bodies have worked closely with central commissions, ministries, and branches and localities to ceaselessly enhance ability to conduct strategic study, prediction, and advice and instruct effective, unitary, synchronous implementation of many important strategies, resolutions, conclusions, projects, and legal documents regarding military and defence domains, which contributes to improvement and development of theoretical thinking, military guidelines and arts of Viet Nam, state management of national defence, better meeting requirements of building and safeguarding the Fatherland both in the short and long term.

Making the Institute for Defence Strategy strong and worthy of a strategic consultative organ in military and defence issues

Sunday, January 12, 2020, 09:17 (GMT+7)
Under the leadership and direction of the CMC, and the MND, directly the Party Committee of the General Staff, since its inception, the institute has surmounted difficulties to successfully accomplished its assigned tasks and affirm its roles and position of a strategic think tank and consultative organ in military and defence issues.

Making the General Political Department’s Party Organization capable of meeting the task requirements in the new period

Sunday, November 10, 2019, 08:34 (GMT+7)
The GPD’s Party Organization has taken specific, effective measures for making itself politically, ideologically, morally, and organizationally strong, its affiliated party organizations pure and strong, and offices and units comprehensively strong as well as leading the GPD to accomplish the work of advising the CMC and MND on major measures and strategies to build a politically strong VPA

Basic guidelines on the work of defence diplomacy in 2019

Sunday, February 10, 2019, 13:37 (GMT+7)
In 2018, the defence diplomacy work was carried out amidst profound changes in the global and regional situation; the domestic situation was basically stable, but our country still faced a lot of difficulties and disadvantages which imposed higher requirements on this work. Clearly understanding that and grasping the Resolution of 12th National Party Congress and the Resolution 806-NQ/QUTW by the Central Military Commission (CMC) on defence international integration and diplomacy until 2020, the Vietnam People’s Army (VPA) performed the work of defence diplomacy in a comprehensive, focalized manner

Actively and comprehensively implementing measures for 2017 defence diplomacy

Wednesday, March 29, 2017, 16:19 (GMT+7)
In the past years, under the leadership of the Central Military Commission and the Ministry of National Defence, the defence diplomacy has emerged as an effective weapon in the cause of Homeland’s protection and construction. In 2017, the task of defence diplomacy should be comprehensively implemented with practical and effective measures, making contribution to the common foreign affairs of the Party and State

Improving the quality of strategic defence forecasting

Tuesday, May 24, 2016, 07:48 (GMT+7)
While in the previous political reports of the Party, strategic forecasting was just seen in external affairs angle, at the 12th National Congress, our Party pointed out clearly the aims, requirements and methods of the work in all fields in the new situation.