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The Navy boosting up modernization, firmly protecting the Fatherland’s waters
The fifth ASEAN Navy chiefs' meeting held in Hanoi

Being  one of the forces that have been decided by the Party, the State and the Ministry of National Defence to advance traightforward to modernization, the Navy’s Party Executive Committee and High Command have been focusing on leading and directing units in the service in implementing synchronous solutions in force organizing, political education, combat readiness and weapon and equipment modernization. For this reason, the  synergy and combat capability of its units have been unceasingly enhanced. However, world and regional situation, especially the East Sea arises many complexities. Hostile forces are strengthening their sobotage acts against our revolution with a number of dangerous plots. They are ready to conduct an aggressive war  when possible. The situation is posing new requirements for the Navy in its mission of firmly protecting the country’s sacred sovereignty over sea, island and  continental shelf. To meet those requirements, units in the Navy must carry out  the following solutions:

1. Make its units strong in politics and ideology. The Party Executive Committee and High Command of the Service decided that focus should be directed towards developing human resource as it is the decisive factor to the modernization of the service. Cadres and soldiers  of the Navy must hold a firm political stand, with good virtues and  a healthy lifestyle, a competent expertise to master weapon and equipment, a good sense of discipline, qualified, be healthy, be patriotic and ready to sacrifice for the country’s sovereignty over sea and islands. When educating politics and ideology, importance need to be attached to improve troops’ awareness of the mission of the army, of the service and of each unit; troops need to be made clear that “protecting the Fatherland’s sea and islands” is a hard but honourable mission of the Navy. Meanwhile, experience from the Navy’s tradition in building political-spiritual factor – one of the things contributing to the first victory of the service, need to be flexibly applied. In the organization of the forces, units need to grasp and implement the service’s orientation: staff of the units need to be built seasoned, compact and powerful with high mobility; strength of each unit should be regularly screened and consolidated to ensure both quantity and quality with fine proportions, between offices and units, among military, politics, logistics, and technique. Units on combat readiness alert and newly-established ones are prioritized to be staffed equately.

2. Enhance quality in training and education. Units and schools in the service must focus on enhancing the effectiveness in exploring and using modern weapons and equipment and on the arm-service unified combat training. When training cadres, units need to decentralize according to their position and responsibility. For operational and  strategic level, it is necessary to enhance cadres’ thinking on the  people’s war to safeguard the Fatherland, the capability in combat commanding in sea and island theatre; to focus on training so that cadres of all levels are keen on the navy’s arts of war, good at staff work for combating and training; good at combating in combined forces, mastering new weapons and equipment with adequate knowledge in information technology and foreign language. For units, it is necessary to focus on training troops to master their equipped weapons and tactical and technical expertise; attach importance to training units plans to protect sea and islands with high mobility and flexibility and fast deployment in any situation. Training should be centered around units with surface vessels, submarines, naval  air force, marines, coastal missiles, naval commando; island-centric defence; focused on the mission of sea and island warfare; aimed at preventing, annihilating and destroying the enemy; defeating the enemy right at the first battle; and prioritized for new recruits and for troops on combat readiness alert.

Grasping the Party’s viewpoints and guidelines of foreign affairs policy, the service continues to study, consult and propose plans for widening cooperation with  navies of neighbouring, regional countries and important partners relating to the modernization of the service to the Party, State and Ministry of National Defence.

3. Enhance the effectiveness  of logistics and technical support. To meet the requirements of modernization, logistics and technical work must renovate towards “regular, mobile, and grass-roots-driven” direction. First, units with modern weapons and vehicles and those on combat readiness alert  must be prioritized to be equipped with adequate and quality materials. Meanwhile, importance is to be attached to supplementing materials for urgent missions, especially for those who are in charge of managing, protecting the country’s sovereignty and directly in combat with aggressive violations to the country’s sovereignty over seas and islands.

Admiral Nguyen Van Hien

Member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Minister of  National Defence

Commander of the Navy.

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