The core and breakthrough point in the thinking of General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong in building Vietnam's National Defense Strategy is the idea that "protecting the country's independence and autonomy must be associated with protecting peace."
As Secretary of the Central Military Commission, General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong always has close, warm, and deep feelings for military officers and soldiers, militia and self-defense forces nationwide and has strategic instructions that contribute significantly to the cause of building the army, consolidating national defense, and firmly protecting the Fatherland.
Building a people's heart
General Phan Van Giang, Politburo member, Deputy Secretary of the Central Military Commission, Minister of National Defense emphasized: "With his intelligence, strategic vision, sharp and astute thinking, he has made great contributions to the development and direction of the successful implementation of the Fatherland Protection Strategy in the new situation and the Party's policies and guidelines, and the State's legal system in the military and national defense fields. Since 2003, as a Politburo member, Chairman of the Central Theoretical Council, in charge of the Party's theoretical work, Comrade Nguyen Phu Trong has made important contributions, helping the Party Central Committee (9th tenure) issue the first thematic resolution on the Fatherland Protection Strategy."
A consistent requirement and also a core lesson leading to the victory of the Vietnamese revolution is to build a position of popular support and mobilize the strength of great national unity.
The viewpoint of General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong is not outside of this ideology. In his position as Secretary of the Central Military Commission, the General Secretary always emphasized that it is necessary to promote "the core role in building a national defense foundation associated with the people's security posture and building solid defense zones of provinces and cities; strengthening the country's defense potential and strength."
The General Secretary also requested to “implement well the policy of combining national defense and security with economy, economy with national defense and security, raise awareness, especially in strategic directions, key areas, borders, and islands. Do well the work of national defense and security education, raise awareness, responsibility, and actions of all people towards the task of strengthening national defense and protecting the Fatherland.”
According to General Phan Van Giang, on the basis of firmly grasping, assessing, and accurately forecasting the situation, trends of the times, and ways to resolve risks and challenges, from 2011 to present, the General Secretary has directed the development, promulgation, and implementation of the Central Resolution 8 (term XI, term XIII) on the Strategy for National Defense in the new situation, ensuring scientific, accurate, and effective results; marking a step forward in the development of new thinking and awareness about protecting the Fatherland early and from afar, "keeping the inside warm and the outside peaceful"; "the people are the root", the center, the subject, building a "people's heart position," and keeping the people safe is the decisive factor for the victory of the cause of building and defending the Fatherland; Identify the goal of "Protecting the Fatherland is to protect independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity, protect the socialist regime, protect the people, build a favorable environment for development but must be associated with protecting peace and peace is considered a sacred value of the country"; closely combine economic, cultural, social development with ensuring national defense, security and foreign affairs with national defense and security to promote the nation's overall strength.
In his working sessions and speeches, General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong always expressed the consistent and thorough ideology of the head of our Party on viewpoints, guiding goals, directions and solutions to carry out the task of protecting the Fatherland in the new period.
The General Secretary's instructions inherit the Vietnamese people's tradition of fighting to build and defend the country, while drawing lessons from rich and vivid practical experiences, demonstrating depth, determination and comprehensiveness; contributing to clarifying the development in the Party's theoretical thinking on military guidelines and defense strategies, especially the Party's comprehensive and direct leadership role in the cause of building and defending the Fatherland.
"Under the direction of the General Secretary, the Strategy for National Defense in the new situation is smoothly combined in guidelines, policies, plans, projects, and socio-economic development programs, and is concretized by many specialized strategies, such as the National Defense Strategy, Vietnam Military Strategy, Strategy for National Defense in Cyberspace, Strategy for National Border Protection, National Security Strategy..., resolutions, directives, and conclusions of the Politburo and the Central Military Commission on each field and aspect of work. These are major policies and guidelines for us to successfully carry out the important and regular task: Protecting the Fatherland in the new context, facing the multi-dimensional impact of the world and regional situation with many complex and unpredictable developments," affirmed General Phan Van Giang.
Peace is the overarching goal
As a participant in the development of Vietnam's National Defense Strategy, the late Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Chi Vinh (former member of the Party Central Committee, former Deputy Minister of National Defense) had many opportunities to directly report and ask for guidance from General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, and at the same time attended many meetings chaired by the General Secretary on related issues.
Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Chi Vinh once shared: “What surprised and impressed me was the General Secretary’s outstanding thinking, vision, and scientific methodology, which were clearly demonstrated throughout the process of directing the development of a specialized document of our Party on national defense and military work. With Resolution No. 24-NQ/TW dated April 16, 2018 of the 12th Politburo on Vietnam’s National Defense Strategy, General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong not only played the role of a leader but also a strategist, creating the basic and key orientations in the path of protecting the socialist Vietnamese Fatherland in the new era.”
In the process of building the Vietnam National Defense Strategy - an important national strategy to institutionalize the basic viewpoints of our Party on national defense, the direction of General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong was very detailed, specific, thorough and profound, showing the erudition, deep understanding, as well as the strategic thinking of the head of our Party.
The core and breakthrough point in the thinking of General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, Secretary of the Central Military Commission, in building Vietnam's National Defense Strategy is the idea that "protecting the country's independence and autonomy must be associated with protecting peace", because peace is considered a sacred value, protecting a peaceful and stable environment for the country to develop.
Therefore, the General Secretary always requested the Ministry of National Defense to study and grasp the situation, developments, and fluctuations in all directions and regions, especially key regions; to do a good job of forecasting, strategic advice, early detection, and timely advice to the Party, State, and Central Military Commission to direct and promptly prevent situations from occurring, absolutely not to be passive or surprised; affirming that "this is a very important strategic task, vital to the army."
Sharing the viewpoint of taking the protection of a peaceful environment as a consistent goal in building the comprehensive strength of national defense and military of General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, Major General, Professor, Doctor Nguyen Hong Quan, former Deputy Director of the Institute of National Defense Strategy, said that this is a completely scientific viewpoint, has a dialectical and organic relationship with each other and has been tested in practice.
“The problem we see is that protecting peace is one of the fundamental tasks of our army, of the national defense, and is a sacred value of the task of protecting the Fatherland. Only by protecting a peaceful environment can we create the foundation for building a strong and solid army. At the same time, only by building a developed economy and expanding the country's foreign relations can we have the conditions to further enhance the overall strength of national defense and military, and strengthen and promote the hard power as well as the soft power of our country,” said Major General Nguyen Hong Quan.
The army always maintains its revolutionary nature.
In order to continue to maintain and strengthen the Party's leadership over the army, ensuring that the army always maintains its revolutionary nature, goals, and fighting ideals, and successfully completes the task of building and defending the Fatherland, General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong said that it is important to unify the perception: regardless of the circumstances and conditions, we must firmly adhere to the principle that the Communist Party of Vietnam absolutely and directly leads the Vietnam People's Army in all aspects. Perfecting and improving the quality of the Party's leadership is a decisive factor for the Party to firmly grasp the army in all situations.
The General Secretary emphasized: "The Party not only sets out military guidelines, determines the direction for developing the country's military and defense potential, determines goals, combat ideals, and policies and solutions to enhance the combat strength of the Party Committee of the Army, but the Party also leads the organization and realization of the viewpoints and guidelines for building a revolutionary, disciplined, elite, and gradually modern army."
To build a strong and comprehensive army, we must first improve the quality and effectiveness of Party and political work throughout the army, and build a politically strong army. The General Secretary requested “to improve the quality of political work; to have many policies and solutions to improve the leadership capacity and fighting strength of Party committees and organizations at all levels.”
Regarding military cadres, General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong noted the need to attach importance to training and improving both the mettle and capacity of leadership, command, and management of troops. The General Secretary reminded and assigned tasks to the military forces: Be absolutely loyal to the Party, the Fatherland, and the people. Be proactive, sensitive, and determined to fight against erroneous and hostile viewpoints; manifestations of opportunism, individualism, loss of confidence, ambiguity, and loss of vigilance; and prevent degradation in political ideology, morality, lifestyle, "self-evolution," and "self-transformation" within the organization.
Continue to innovate, strengthen and improve the effectiveness of mass mobilization work, contributing to consolidating the great national unity bloc, tightening the flesh-and-blood relationship between the Party, the army and the people, firmly consolidating the people's hearts and minds, and increasing the people's trust and love for the Party, the State and the army.
The viewpoints and directions of General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong are important orientations to continue building and perfecting Vietnam's military guidelines and defense strategies to meet the requirements of the task of building and defending the Fatherland in the new period; at the same time, demonstrating close and comprehensive leadership of the Vietnam People's Army, an army born from the people, fighting for the people, and absolutely loyal to the Party, the Fatherland and the people./.
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