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General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong's book entitled “Some issues about the military policy, national defense strategy during the cause of building and defending the socialist Vietnam Fatherland in the new period” (Photo: vov.vn) |
The recently released book, with its title translated as “Some issues about the military policy, national defense strategy during the cause of building and defending the socialist Vietnam Fatherland in the new period”, comprises 39 articles, speeches, and interviews of General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, who is also Secretary of the Central Military Commission.
The first section, with 21 articles, speeches and interviews, focuses on the building of the Vietnam People’s Army (VPA) into a revolutionary, regular, elite, and modernized military in the new period.
The second, with 18 articles and speeches, is about the building of lean, strong and modernity-oriented forces of the military to fulfill requirements and tasks in all circumstances.
Meanwhile, the third is reserved for a writing by Sr. Lt. Gen. Nguyen Chi Vinh, former member of the Party Central Committee, former member of the Central Military Commission’s Standing Board, and former Deputy Minister of National Defense. It affirmed the Party General Secretary and Secretary of the Central Military Commission is a leader with a dialectical mindset and strategic vision on the formation of the military policy and defense strategy for safeguarding the socialist Vietnam.
Sr. Col. Le The Mau, former head of the military science information department at the Institute for Defense Strategy, called the book an important political document, which defines defense tasks for both short and long terms.
Articles in the book include contents opposing wrong views and the "peaceful evolution" in the fields of ideology and culture within the military, and contributing to raising vigilance among officers and soldiers, he continued.
Mentioning the 18 articles and speeches by the Party leader in the second section of the book, Dang Thanh Huong, from the Law and Development Journal under the Vietnam Association of Lawyers, said they affirm the Party’s absolute and direct leadership in all aspects of the VPA, highlighting the book’s values both in theory and practice.
The book is a “lodestar” for officials, Party members and people to research and study in order to get an insight into the all-people defense as well as defense tasks in the new situation, she said.
Vu Anh Nguyet, a Party member at the Ministry of Home Affairs, emphasized that the book mirrors the Party chief’s strategic vision on defense and military, saying each Vietnamese citizen should thoroughly grasp all-people defense as well as defense tasks.
Tran Thi Na, a teacher at Minh Khai High School in Hanoi, said the book should be promoted among the public to raise their awareness of responsibility and tasks in national defense.
Source: VNA