The Resolution of the 12^th Military Party Congress for the 2025 - 2030 term has emphasised “Renewing logistics and technical support, with on-the-spot support being the main method and mobile support being an important one, to meet the requirements of military and defence tasks in the new situation and facilitate the building of a revolutionary, regular, elite, modern Vietnam People’s Army (VPA)”. Under that spirit, Military Logistics - Technical Sector is stepping up a comprehensive reform towards flexibility, modernity, and sustainability, ensuring sufficient, timely support for all missions in all situations.

Over the years, under the leadership and direction of the Central Military Commission (CMC), the Ministry of National Defence (MND), and all-level Party committees and commands, logistics and technical work across the entire VPA has achieved many significant results, contributing to improving the Military’s synergy and combat strength and building an “adept, compact, strong” VPA.

General Department of Logistics - Technology inspects military vehicle and artillery groups during A80 mission, August 2025 (photo: qdnd.vn)

General Department of Logistics - Technology (GDLT) has given proactive advice to the CMC and MND on numerous strategic specialised solutions, meeting the requirements of military, defence, and Fatherland protection tasks in the new situation. Besides, it has directed and guided the entire VPA to encourage “self-reliance and self-strengthening” against difficulties and challenges, especially Covid-19 pandemic, natural disasters, storms, and floods, as well as market fluctuations and supply chain disruptions, striving to successfully fulfil the goals and targets of logistics and technical work set out in the Resolution of the 11^th Military Party Congress and the road map for realising the CMC’s specialised resolutions; many targets and tasks have been completed ahead of schedule. Support work has seen many reforms, with quality and effectiveness being continuously raised, thus opportunely meeting regular and irregular missions as well as disaster response and search and rescue; troops’ living standards have remained stable.

The entire Sector has grasped and effectively implemented the guidelines of the CMC and MND on force adjustment, especially on merging General Department of Logistics and General Department of Technology into the GDLT in accordance with plans, without any disruption in support work. In 2025, the Sector made thorough preparations and ensured good logistics and technical support for forces performing A50 and A80 missions, which was highly appreciated by the Government and MND. The GDLT and logistics - technical offices and units across the VPA successfully organised all-level Party congresses, creating new momentum, enhancing leadership and direction over their functions and assigned tasks in the coming period.

In 2026, the global and regional situation will continue to evolve rapidly, complexly, and unpredictably; strategic competition among major powers will remain intense; armed conflicts, hi-tech warfare, and non-traditional security challenges will continue to increase and profoundly affect military and defence tasks. This is also the first year the entire VPA grasps and implements the Resolutions of the 12^th Military Party Congress and the 14^th National Party Congress. More demanding and comprehensive requirements are imposed on military and defence work and the building of a revolutionary, regular, elite, modern VPA. Logistics and technical support tasks will face many difficulties and challenges. Against that backdrop, the entire VPA, particularly the Logistics - Technical Sector, should thoroughly grasp Party congress resolutions at all levels, closely adhere to military and defence tasks, continue to promote its core role, proactively give advice on renewing logistics and technical work towards flexibility, modernity, and sustainability, with a focus on the following.

First, proactively advising the CMC, MND, and all-level Party committees and commands to lead and direct military logistics and technical work, with emphasis placed on perfecting institutions, renewing methods of providing logistics and technical materials, building strong logistics and technical potential and a firm logistics and technical posture, meeting the requirements of Fatherland protection in the new situation. All-level logistics - technical offices, especially specialised departments and competent bodies under the GDLT, should proactively grasp situational developments to give advice on formulating action plans and programs to achieve the goals and tasks set out in the Resolution of the 12^th Military Party Congress, in tandem with the CMC’s Resolutions 1658-NQ/QUTW and 1656-NQ/QUTW, quickly translating those resolutions into life.

Due attention should be paid to helping the CMC and MND give advice to the Party, State, and Government on completing and supplementing the system of specialised legal normative documents. At the same time, it is necessary to intensify research and development of military logistics and technical theory and science, especially methods of logistics and technical support in the building of a revolutionary, regular, elite, modern VPA. Besides, it is essential to give advice on synchronously executing resolutions, conclusions, programs, and projects of the Logistics - Technical Sector according to the pre-set road map, ensuring progress, quality, and effectiveness, and renewing equipment, vehicles, infrastructure, and logistics - technical supplies in sync with modern weapons and technical equipment. Sufficient logistics and technical support should be provided for training, combat readiness, non-traditional security challenge response, and major political events to contribute to protecting national independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity.

Offices and units, especially logistics - technical ones of military regions and local military agencies, should actively give advice to local Party committees and authorities on promoting the development and operation of logistics and technical support within military region defence and local defensive zones in line with administrative boundary adjustments and two-tier local government model. Great value should be attached to building strong on-the-spot logistics and technical potential and posture in each direction and area, especially in strategic areas, creating an inter-connected, solid posture to meet the requirements of military and defence tasks and contribute to economic development and social security.

Leader of the GDLT inspects military vehicle and artillery groups during A80 mission, 8/2025 (photo: qdnd.vn)

Second, perfecting logistics and technical support methods towards “flexibility, modernity, sustainability” in line with new legal regulations and the particularities of military activities. Based on the Government’s decrees and the MND’s regulations, the Sector should strictly maintain correct, sufficient, timely, effective logistics material support, especially at grass-roots level, and improve troops’ living standards. Moreover, it is important to fundamentally renew technical support methods towards proactivity and flexibility, foster the application of modern science and technology, digital transformation, and artificial intelligence, and adopt technical support based on the life cycle of new-generation weapons and technical equipment, with a view to meeting the task requirements in peacetime and sustaining reserves for complex, unexpected situations.

Specialised branches should intensify the application of science, technology, and digital transformation in the management, command, and operation of logistics and technical work, flexibly adopt support methods, reasonably decentralise and delegate authority, regard “on-the-spot support as the main method”, ensure mobility, timeliness, and continuity, and enhance self-reliance within units. To that end, strategic-level offices should focus on effectively performing the function of state management of logistics and technical work, reviewing and adjusting decentralisation of repair appropriately, and step by step transferring major repair technologies for traditional weapons and equipment to operational-level units. They should continue refining mechanisms and regulations to encourage administrative reforms, application of science and technology, and digital transformation in logistics and technical work, fostering the building, management, and operation of modern, smart depot systems, synchronously applying advanced, safe, sustainable maintenance, storage, and repair solutions, with priority given to hi-tech integrated weapons and equipment, as well as weapons, ammunition, and fuel used under harsh conditions and at sea; over 50% of strategic-level depots shall be built and managed under new technologies.

Furthermore, all-level logistics - technical offices should proactively grasp and synchronously implement plans and programs to achieve logistics and technical goals and targets set out in Party congress resolutions for the 2025 - 2030 term, in line with related directives, resolutions, conclusions, projects, programs, and plans, thus laying a firm, long-term logistics - technical foundation to meet the requirements of building a modern VPA.

Third, accelerating force adjustment, building an adept, compact, strong pool of logistics and technical cadres and employees capable of effectively performing support tasks. Apart from proactively reviewing and giving advice on force adjustment to ensure a synchronised, rational organisational structure, prioritising the development of highly qualified logistics and technical personnel in key, specialised, spearhead fields, the Sector should continue working on policies to attract high-quality human resources, especially top experts. Consideration should be given to completing regulations on defining functions, tasks, working relationships, and coordination mechanisms of all-level logistics - technical offices in logistics and technical support after the re-organisation of key agencies and units and local military forces, meeting the requirements of building a revolutionary, regular, elite, modern VPA.

To enhance staff work, command, leadership, management, and support capacity of logistics and technical cadres and employees, the Sector should continue to raise the quality of training and professional development under the motto of “basics, practicality, solidity”, appropriate to the reality and mission requirements of each unit and force. It is necessary to diversify forms of training and link education and training work at schools with research centres, units, and international cooperation. Great weight should be added to closely integrating education and training with combat readiness, technological research, application, and transfer, executing “Digital Literacy” movement, building “digital soldiers” capable of working in digital environments and effectively exploiting new-generation logistics and technical equipment. Academies and schools should continue renewing processes and curricula for training logistics and technical cadres and employees at all levels, and including logistics and technical support under modern warfare conditions in their curricula.

Fourth, promoting scientific research and expanding international cooperation in logistics and technical fields. Adhering to the country’s practical situation and the VPA’s task requirements, logistics - technical offices at all levels, especially research centres, should enhance their forecasting capability, identify new issues, and create breakthroughs in applying scientific and technological advances, particularly the achievements of the 4^th Industrial Revolution to logistics and technical work. Scientific and technological research should be encouraged to address practical issues in logistics and technical support and especially modernise weapons and technical equipment in service. Due attention should be paid to cooperating with organisations inside and outside the VPA to gradually achieve autonomy in producing specialised fuels, logistics materials, and technical supplies. In the coming period, the Sector shall be self-sufficient in over 60% of normal technical supplies and 30% of specialised technical supplies; it shall assemble and increase localisation rates of transport vehicles and artillery tractors; it shall improve and modernise tanks with many features equivalent to new-generation tanks.

International cooperation in logistics and technical support will be expanded, with a focus on professional experience exchange, human resource training, handling of non-traditional security situations, disaster response, and United Nations peacekeeping operations. To that end, specialised departments and units in charge of new, modern weapons and technical equipment should proactively propose and implement cooperation projects with foreign partners in logistics and technical support, so as to gradually master the exploitation and repair of new weapons and equipment. When executing those projects with foreign partners, offices and units should express their willingness to study, approach, and master technologies, particularly high technologies.

Fifth, continuing to effectively implement emulation movements and campaigns of the Logistics - Technical Sector. Promoting the recorded results and experience, especially after the review of the emulation movement entitled “the Military Logistics Sector follows Uncle Ho’s teachings” and the Campaign on “managing and exploiting weapons and technical equipment effectively, sustainably, safely, economically and ensuring traffic safety”, logistics - technical offices at all levels should proactively give advice on measures and forms so that the Movement and Campaign will continue to be implemented widely to promote synergy in mobilising resources for logistics and technical work and ensuring the safety of facilities, depots, workshops, weapons, equipment, and logistics and technical materials. Besides, the quality of training, exercises, contests, regularity building, and corruption and wastefulness prevention and combat should continue to be improved. 

Logistics and technical missions in the coming years will be very demanding; hence, the Military Logistics - Technical Sector should continue promoting its core role, effectively performing its advisory function, and proactively coordinating with relevant agencies, organisations, and forces to successfully accomplish the goals and tasks of renewing logistics and technical support towards flexibility, modernity, sustainability, thereby contributing to building a revolutionary, regular, elite, modern VPA capable of firmly protecting the Fatherland in the new era of development.

Lt. Gen. TRAN MINH DUC
Chief of the GDLT