During the four-day course, trainees studied principles and theory in defense operations, staff and command work for defense operation, methods to direct and manage defensive area exercises, Party and political work, logistics supplies and technical services and some new combat tricks in the world, among others. These are important and necessary contents for chains-of-command of agencies and units to later apply to their units’ training and holding exercises in 2024 and the following years.

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Chief of the General Staff and Deputy Defense Minister Sr. Lt. Gen. Nguyen Tan Cuong speaks at the event.

In his closing speech, Gen. Cuong hailed the trainees for their achievements in the course. He asked agencies and units to closely work with functional forces of relevant ministries, departments in stationed localities, concentrate on researching, making accurate forecasting of situations, early detecting and recognizing hostile forces and reactionaries’ schemes to effectively address contingencies.

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Delegates at the closing ceremony

The chief of the General Staff requested functional agencies under the Ministry of National Defense to continue to study new operation methods and schemes of foreign militaries in recent armed conflicts and forecast possible future warfare methods and schemes.

Military academies and schools were asked to team up with other agencies and units to research, make proposals to renovate training programs close to reality. For agencies and units, they should make forecast of situations related to defense and political security tasks, and prepare for coming exercises.

Translated by Mai Huong