General Secretary To Lam: Promoting Vietnam's military mettle, intelligence, and art

Attending were comrades: Politburo member, Standing member of the Secretariat Tran Cam Tu; Politburo members, Party Central Committee Secretaries: Head of the Central Organization Commission Le Minh Hung, Head of the Central Inspection Commission Nguyen Duy Ngoc, Head of the Central Internal Affairs Commission Phan Dinh Trac, Head of the Central Propaganda and Education Commission Nguyen Trong Nghia.

Also attending were Politburo members: Deputy Secretary of the Central Military Commission, Minister of National Defense, General Phan Van Giang; Secretary of the Central Public Security Party Committee, Minister of Public Security, General Luong Tam Quang; Standing member of the 14th National Party Congress Document Subcommittee Nguyen Van Nen.

Also attending were Politburo members, former Politburo members, Party Central Committee Secretaries, former Party Central Committee Secretaries, Party Central Committee members, former Party Central Committee members, leaders, former leaders of the Party, State, Vietnam Fatherland Front; leaders, former leaders of the Ministry of National Defense and the General Staff; leaders of central and local departments, ministries, branches, and organizations; revolutionary veterans, Vietnamese Heroic Mothers, Heroes of the People's Armed Forces, Heroes of Labor; Defense Attaches, Military Attaches, Military Attaches of foreign services in Vietnam; leaders and commanders of agencies and units under the Ministry of National Defense...

Politburo members: President Luong Cuong; Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh; National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man; Party Central Committee Secretary, Chairman of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee Do Van Chien, along with central and local departments, ministries, branches sent congratulatory flower baskets.

Constantly improve political capacity, provide timely and effective advice

In his speech at the Commemoration Ceremony, General Nguyen Tan Cuong, member of the Party Central Committee, Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People's Army, Deputy Minister of National Defense, stated: After the country gained independence, to command and operate the armed forces of the whole country, on September 7, 1945, President Ho Chi Minh assigned comrade Hoang Van Thai the task of establishing the General Staff. He pointed out: "... The General Staff is a confidential military agency of the Union, an important agency of the army, with the tasks of: Organizing and training the army well; organizing to grasp the enemy and ourselves clearly; devising clever strategies; organizing smooth, secret, quick, timely, and accurate command to defeat all enemies and protect the achievements of the revolution".

Implementing his teachings, under the leadership and direction of the Central Executive Committee, the Politburo, directly the Central Military Commission, the Ministry of National Defense and the wholehearted support of the Party Committees, authorities and people of the whole country, over the past 80 years, the General Staff has continuously grown and achieved many outstanding achievements in the war of national liberation as well as in the cause of building and defending the socialist Fatherland of Vietnam, worthy of being the strategic advisory body on military and national defense, the highest command body of the People's Army and the Vietnam People's Militia and Self-Defense Force. Looking back on the journey of accompanying the country, the General Staff of the Vietnam People's Army has made remarkable progress in all aspects; in any conditions and circumstances, it has always strived to excellently fulfill its tasks.

With its achievements in the cause of national liberation, construction and protection of the Fatherland, the General Staff of the Vietnam People's Army was honored to be awarded by the Party and State the Gold Star Order; Ho Chi Minh Order; First Class Military Exploit Order; Second Class Military Exploit Order and many collectives and individuals were awarded other noble awards.

Proud of the contributions and achievements, General Nguyen Tan Cuong affirmed that each cadre, employee, soldier and worker of the General Staff is more deeply aware of their responsibility for the cause of building and defending the Fatherland; constantly improving their political mettle, comprehensive qualifications, promptly and effectively advising the Party, State, Central Military Commission, and Ministry of National Defense on military and defense work, constantly improving the overall quality, strength, combat readiness and combat capability of the Army, ensuring that in any conditions and circumstances, they always receive and successfully complete all assigned tasks.

Speaking at the Ceremony, on behalf oft Party and State leaders, General Secretary To Lam, Secretary of the Central Military Commission, sent to the leaders and former leaders of the Party, State, Central Military Commission, Ministry of National Defense; revolutionary veterans, Heroes of the People's Armed Forces, Heroes of Labor; war invalids, families of martyrs, and all generals, officers, employees, soldiers, and workers of the General Staff through the periods, leaders and commanders of agencies and units the deepest feelings and best wishes; warmly congratulated the great achievements, outstanding growth and glorious tradition of the General Staff of the People's Army over the past 80 years.

The General Secretary emphasized that over 80 years of construction, fighting, winning, developing and growing, under the leadership of the Party and President Ho Chi Minh, and regularly and directly by the Central Military Commission and the Ministry of National Defense; with the love, care and wholehearted support of the Party committees, authorities and people of the whole country; inheriting and promoting the fine and glorious traditions of the Army and the heroic Vietnamese nation, generations of leaders, commanders, officers, employees, soldiers and workers of the General Staff have highly promoted the bravery, intelligence and military art of Vietnam, making many achievements and outstanding achievements in the wars of national liberation, as well as in the cause of building and defending the Fatherland. The General Staff is worthy of being the highest command and staff agency of the People's Army and the Vietnam People's Militia and Self-Defense Force, worthy of the tradition of "Loyalty - Strategy, Dedication - Creativity, Solidarity - Cooperation, Determination to Fight - Determination to Win".

The General Secretary pointed out that in the context of the international and regional situation continuing to have complex and unpredictable developments; hostile forces are intensifying their sabotage against the Party, the State and the revolutionary cause of our people; the task of protecting the Fatherland is posing many major and urgent issues for the entire Party, the entire army and the entire people. Among them, there is the task of building the General Staff to be worthy of being the command and strategic advisory body on military and national defense of the Party, the State, the Central Military Commission and the Ministry of National Defense.

Bringing Vietnamese military science and art to new heights

To successfully fulfill the functions and tasks of strategic staff, command, and direction of the Vietnam People's Army and Militia and Self-Defense Force in carrying out military and defense activities and tasks in the new situation, the General Secretary proposed continuing to thoroughly grasp Ho Chi Minh's military thought, the Party's military and defense guidelines, especially the Fatherland Protection Strategy in the new situation; inheriting and promoting the quintessence of national military art, selectively absorbing and creatively applying advanced military science and technology in the world, bringing Vietnam's military science and art to new heights; continuing to advise and direct the completion of the legal system; effectively implementing strategies, guidelines, policies, and laws on military and defense.

The General Secretary requested to focus on building and improving comprehensive, proactive and sensitive capacity in researching and forecasting the situation early, especially the moves and trends in strategic adjustments of major countries, the situation in the East Sea, etc.; promptly advising and proposing on planning strategic and tactical guidelines; properly handling international relations, proactively preventing the risk of war and conflict; directing to further improve the quality of grasping, forecasting and assessing the situation; continuing to improve the effectiveness of combining economy with national defense, national defense with economy, promoting the building of all-people national defense, all-people national defense posture associated with people's security, people's security posture and a solid "people's hearts posture"; building solid defense of military zones and defense zones at all levels, in accordance with the two-level local government model.

The General Secretary requested that the General Staff strengthen command and direction of the entire army to regularly raise vigilance, strictly maintain discipline and combat readiness, patrol, control, and strictly manage airspace, sea, border, inland, and cyberspace; and adjust strategic deployments, plans, and combat options to suit reality and meet mission requirements in the new situation.

The General Staff directs the effective implementation of the functions of the People's Army as a combat army, a working army, and a production labor army; continues to promote the core role and reliable support of the people in preventing, responding to, and overcoming the consequences of incidents, disasters, epidemics, and the environment, and identifies this as the Army's combat mission in peacetime.

The General Secretary emphasized that it is necessary to continue to thoroughly grasp and grasp the Party's orientation in building the armed forces, building an Army with comprehensive quality and increasingly high combat strength. In particular, focusing on directing the good implementation of Resolution No. 05 of the Politburo on the organization of the Vietnam People's Army for the period 2021 - 2030; advising on realizing and concretizing to effectively implement the policy of building a modern Army with a roadmap, steps, and criteria that are specific, practical, certain, and feasible; promptly having solutions to remove bottlenecks and knots; paying attention to appropriate investment to ensure weapons and equipment for the forces to advance to modernity.

The General Staff builds and improves the quality of reserve forces and militia and self-defense forces; focuses on building a permanent militia fleet, participating in protecting sovereignty over seas and islands in the new situation; advises and directs the implementation of Resolution No. 57 of the Politburo and Resolution No. 3488 of the Central Military Commission on breakthroughs in science and technology development, innovation and digital transformation; promotes administrative reform associated with digital transformation, improves the effectiveness of command, direction, management and operation in the Ministry of National Defense and in the entire army.

The General Secretary noted that it is important to build a Party organization of the General Staff - the Ministry of National Defense that is strong in politics, ideology, ethics, organization and personnel; improve the quality and effectiveness of implementing the Resolution of the 4th Central Committee (13th tenure) on strengthening the building and rectification of the Party and the political system, associated with studying and following the ideology, ethics and lifestyle of Ho Chi Minh, the Campaign to promote tradition, contribute talent, worthy of the title "Uncle Ho's soldiers" in the new period. The General Staff focuses on building a team of agency cadres, first of all, cadres in charge at all levels, strategic staff officers, leading experts with steadfast political will, steadfastness, truly exemplary in qualities; have strategic thinking, are sharp, sharp, flexible in grasping and handling situations and have the qualifications and capacity to advise, guide and successfully implement all tasks.

With the achievements, feats and heroic traditions over the past 80 years, the General Secretary believes that under the leadership, management and direction of the Party and State, directly by the Central Military Commission and the Ministry of National Defense, all cadres, employees, soldiers and workers of the General Staff of the Vietnam People's Army will increasingly mature, continue to promote the glorious tradition, strive to excellently complete all assigned tasks, and forever be worthy of the trust and love of the Party, State and people.

At the ceremony, on behalf of the Party and State leaders, General Secretary To Lam awarded the title of Hero of the People's Armed Forces to the General Staff of the Vietnam People's Army for its outstanding achievements in training, combat readiness, building the People's Army, strengthening National Defense, contributing to the cause of building socialism and defending the Fatherland.