The General Secretary's book demonstrates a consistent strategic ideology in protecting the Fatherland.

On July 18, the General Department of Politics of the Vietnam People's Army, the Central Propaganda Department and the National Political Publishing House Truth jointly organized a ceremony to introduce the book "Some issues on military guidelines and defense strategies in the cause of building and defending the socialist Vietnamese Fatherland in the new period"of General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong.

Attending the event were comrade Nguyen Xuan Thang, Politburo member, Chairman of the Central Theoretical Council, Director of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics; comrade Le Minh Hung, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Chief of the Party Central Committee Office; and leaders of departments, ministries, branches, organizations, scientists, research experts...

With 39 articles, speeches, and interviews by General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, the book demonstrates the consistent and thorough thinking of the Party leader on leadership and direction of policies and strategies to protect the Fatherland in the new period.

The content of these directives inherits the tradition of the Vietnamese people's struggle to build and defend the country, while drawing on rich and vivid practical experiences, demonstrating the General Secretary's closeness, determination, comprehensiveness and persuasiveness; 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 over the Vietnam People's Army in the cause of building and defending the socialist Fatherland.

Speaking at the ceremony, Lieutenant General Trinh Van Quyet, Deputy Director of the General Department of Politics, emphasized: "The book by General Secretary and Secretary of the Central Military Commission Nguyen Phu Trong is not only meaningful to the Army, but also meaningful to Party committees, Party organizations, branches, levels, cadres and Party members to clearly understand, grasp and thoroughly grasp the national defense policy, people's war, and the task of protecting the Fatherland in the new situation; promote the role and responsibility of the political system in participating in building and consolidating a strong national defense, solid defense of military regions and defense areas at all levels."

Lieutenant General Trinh Van Quyet requested that Party committees and organizations in the Army need to study, research, and thoroughly grasp the book's content in Party cell activities; and connect it with the practical work of agencies, units, and localities where troops are stationed. The national defense education system, especially military academies, political schools, and universities, on the basis of the book's content, will develop learning and research materials on military guidelines, defense strategies, and the task of protecting the Fatherland in the new period.

Associate Professor, Dr. Vu Trong Lam, Director - Editor-in-Chief of the National Political Publishing House, Truth, said at the launching ceremony that the book consists of three parts.

Part One:Building a revolutionary, disciplined, elite, and modern Vietnam People's Army in the new era,Includes 21 articles, speeches, and interviews by the General Secretary on military guidelines, defense strategies, and directions for building the Army to meet mission requirements in the new context.

Part two:Building a strong, compact, and modern military force that can meet mission requirements in all situations., including 18 articles, speeches, and addresses of the General Secretary to the military branches, academies, and schools.

The third part is the article.General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, Secretary of the Central Military Commission - a person with dialectical thinking and strategic vision in building military guidelines, national defense strategies, and protecting the socialist Vietnamese Fatherlandby Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Chi Vinh, former member of the Party Central Committee, former Deputy Minister of National Defense. With simple language and sharp thinking, the author of the article has summarized the leadership and direction of the General Secretary, Secretary of the Central Military Commission - "the strategist who created the basic and key orientations in the policy of protecting the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in the new era".

The book is a valuable document, demonstrating the profound understanding and strategic thinking of the leader of our Party on Vietnam's military and defense policies; based on the methodology of Marxism-Leninism, Ho Chi Minh's thought, the quintessence of Vietnamese military art and with sharp political vision and rich experiences in revolutionary practice.

The General Secretary's guiding viewpoints 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 protecting the Fatherland in the new period. At the same time, they demonstrate close and comprehensive leadership of the Vietnam People's Army, an army born from the people, fighting for the people, absolutely loyal to the Party and the people, worthy of being a sharp sword, a political force, a reliable fighting force of the Party, State and people.

In parallel with publishing traditional paper books, the National Political Publishing House Truth also launched an electronic version of the book, serving readers free of charge.