General Pham Van Tra recounted that after 1990, the Army carried out a number of tasks assigned by the Party and State, including streamlining to adapt to the new situation and fighting against peaceful evolution.

"Up to now, the Army has basically completed these tasks," General Pham Van Tra shared.

The General recalled that in the 1990s, the peaceful evolution that collapsed the socialist regimes in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe posed many lessons for Vietnam to deal with.

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General Pham Van Tra, former Minister of Defense.

"When the General Staff began to develop a plan to prevent peaceful evolution and riots, some people said that in our country there was no riot to fight against and also that with the nature of the Vietnamese people, preventing peaceful evolution was just a "false alarm, an unreal danger".

Some people even think that the Army should only fight against invaders, while preventing peaceful evolution should be left to the Police," General Pham Van Tra recounted.

Reality shows that from 1975 to 1991 there were signs of peaceful evolution.

General Pham Van Tra told about the sabotage events in 1982-1983 or the collapse of the Soviet Union, because the Army was prepared, they prevented peaceful evolution early.

From here, he believes that with the dangerous actions of hostile forces, the Vietnam People's Army cannot be negligent or lose vigilance. General Tra believes that currently, with many sophisticated and cunning tricks in the conditions of scientific and technological development, hostile forces are still actively carrying out peaceful evolution and sabotage against Vietnam.

The Party and State have identified the prevention of peaceful evolution as an urgent task in national defense and security. General Pham Van Tra emphasized that the Army must promptly advise the Party and State on effective policies and measures to prevent peaceful evolution and violent overthrow.

Speaking at the conference, Senior Lieutenant General Trinh Van Quyet, Chief of the General Political Department of the Vietnam People's Army, said that less than a year after its establishment, the young armed force under the leadership of the Party, together with the people, carried out the August Revolution in 1945, establishing the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.

Entering the resistance war against the French colonialists, after 9 long years, the Army gradually matured and grew stronger together with the people to successfully protect the young revolutionary government, defeat the enemy's strategy of "quick fight, quick victory", and develop from guerrilla warfare to mobile warfare.

During the period of building socialism in the North, creating a solid rear base to carry out the people's national democratic revolution in the South, the Vietnam Army continued to mature, becoming a regular army, increasingly modern, including all forces of the Army, Navy, Air Defense - Air Force.

In the years 1973-1975, four main army corps (1, 2, 3, 4) under the Ministry of National Defense were born, as "iron fists" to join our army and people to create the Great Victory of Spring 1975, completely liberating the South and unifying the country.

After the Great Victory in Spring 1975, performing the functions of a combat army, a working army and a production labor army, the Vietnam People's Army transferred one-third of its military force to the task of restoring and developing the economy.

Attending the workshop, Head of the Central Propaganda Department Nguyen Trong Nghia affirmed that in any revolutionary period, even in the most difficult and complicated times, the Communist Party of Vietnam always has absolute and direct leadership in all aspects over the Army.

This is the decisive factor ensuring all victories in the cause of building and defending the Fatherland and the growth, fighting and victory of the Army; ensuring that the Army is truly a sharp tool and an absolutely loyal and trustworthy political force of the Party, State and people.

Faced with the requirement of building a lean, strong, and modern Army, the Head of the Central Propaganda Department said that building a politically strong Army to ensure that the Army, regardless of the circumstances, is always a political force and a fighting force that is absolutely loyal and trustworthy to the Party, State, and people is becoming especially important.

President: Army continues to adjust force organization to be 'refined, compact, strong'

President: Army continues to adjust force organization to be 'refined, compact, strong'

President Luong Cuong said that the Army continues to adjust its force organization, completing the goal of building a "refined, compact, and strong" army, creating a solid foundation, striving to build a revolutionary, disciplined, elite, and modern People's Army by 2030.
The army reports to Uncle Ho, together with the country entering a new era.

The army reports to Uncle Ho, together with the country entering a new era.

On the morning of December 14, at President Ho Chi Minh's Mausoleum, the Central Military Commission and the Ministry of National Defense held a ceremony to report achievements to Uncle Ho.