Dear comrades!
Building and defending the Fatherland are two strategic, continuous tasks of our country's revolution. Defending the Fatherland is an important condition and premise to create a peaceful and stable environment for rapid and sustainable national development. Over the past years, under the leadership of the Party, the participation of the entire political system and the entire people and army, our Fatherland has been firmly protected from early on, from afar, following the motto "protecting the country when it is not yet in danger". The image of a peaceful and stable Vietnam, with the material and spiritual life of the people constantly improving and enhancing, actively contributing to maintaining peace in the world; has become a strong source of inspiration for many countries, a resource for national development in the new era, contributing to strongly attracting foreign investment and tourists, enhancing the prestige and position of Vietnam in the international arena. The revolutionary armed forces have been built to be compact, strong, disciplined, elite, and modern, meeting increasingly high requirements and tasks in the new situation.
It is necessary to continuously expand military diplomacy and international cooperation of the Academy with academies, military universities, defense and security research institutes of countries around the world to absorb human experience and wisdom in perfecting the military art of the new era.
The great achievements in defending the Fatherland have been made possible by the important contributions of the National Defense Academy - the leading trusted address of the Party and State in training strategic-level cadres, including senior cadres of the people's armed forces. Over the years, performing the role of the leading center for education, training, scientific research, and international cooperation of the army and the country, the Academy has always seriously grasped and effectively implemented the Party's guidelines, policies, and viewpoints, the policies and laws of the State, the Central Military Commission, and the Ministry of National Defense; and done a good job of strategic consulting on military, national defense, security, and army building.
Closely following the reality, national defense and security tasks and the Party's policy on comprehensive innovation of education and training, the Academy has actively adjusted the content, programs, and training methods; increased the application of science and technology; focused on research and practical learning; training work has made many advances, with increasingly high quality, contributing to improving the quality of the cadres of the Party, State, and armed forces. The Academy has trained tens of thousands of senior military officers; fostered defense and security knowledge for thousands of senior officers; trained hundreds of doctors, masters of military science, hundreds of senior military officers of several countries; organized many international defense official training courses for students from 34 countries around the world.
Being proactive and creative in scientific research activities; actively studying and summarizing practices, the Academy has done a good job of advising and proposing to the Central Military Commission and the Ministry of National Defense on military and defense issues, contributing to perfecting theories, raising awareness, renewing thinking and developing military and defense policies, protecting the Fatherland early and from afar, elevating military science to the level of Military Art in the people's war to protect the Fatherland. Actively implementing the foreign policy of the Party and State, defense diplomacy, the Academy has successfully completed the task of training senior officers for the Lao and Cambodian armies, defense officials of several countries; enhancing exchanges, academic research, sharing experiences at international forums, with defense academies and research institutes of many countries, contributing to consolidating trust, enhancing the international position of the Army and the country.
On behalf of the Party and State leaders, I warmly congratulate and commend the achievements and efforts of the cadres, lecturers, students, staff and soldiers of the National Defense Academy in recent years.
Scene of the opening ceremony of the new school year at the National Defense Academy.
Scene of the opening ceremony of the new school year at the National Defense Academy.
Dear comrades!
The world is in a period of epochal change. Strategic competition among major countries is increasingly fierce, promoting the arms race, making the international security environment increasingly tense, the living space in places that are the focus of competition is at risk of being narrowed, increasing challenges to the task of protecting the Fatherland. The 4th Industrial Revolution has been changing the way of operating, organizing the way of waging war, the involvement/intervention of countries and many other aspects of military, security and intelligence activities. Non-traditional security issues, especially cyber security, natural disasters, epidemics... are becoming more and more complicated, having multi-dimensional impacts, directly affecting many aspects of social life, threatening global security, directly affecting the task of ensuring national defense, security and protecting the Fatherland. Domestically, factors that can cause mutations and disadvantages are increasing. Hostile, reactionary, and political opportunists are vigorously implementing the strategy of "peaceful evolution" with many insidious, sophisticated, and dangerous tricks; promoting the process of "self-evolution" and "self-transformation" internally, demanding the "depoliticization" of the armed forces.
The external and internal situation places increasingly high demands on the task of defending the Fatherland. It requires correct awareness and good resolution of the relationship between partners and subjects; correct awareness of policies and strategic solutions to repel challenges, seize opportunities, move towards mastering space, deepening research on mastering water surfaces, oceans, and seabeds; researching and developing air defense and air force, mastering airspace, handling well unmanned aerial vehicles in the air, at sea, seabed robots, defense robots in mountainous areas... Developing military art is not only to firmly protect the Fatherland from early on, from afar, and defend the country when it is not yet in danger; more importantly, it is necessary to make the most of opportunities, turn challenges into opportunities, constantly consolidate national defense potential, and increase Vietnam's contribution to peace and stability in the region and the world.
The requirements and tasks of protecting the Fatherland and building a strong, compact, and disciplined military force by 2030, elite and modern, pose increasingly greater requirements and tasks for the training work of the Academy. To achieve the requirements and tasks of the Academy in the new period, I request that you, comrades, focus on performing well the following tasks:
Firstly, thoroughly grasp and effectively implement the Party's policies and viewpoints on fundamental and comprehensive innovation of education and training associated with national defense in the new situation, contributing to improving the quality of cadres of the Party, State and armed forces in the new period. There are 3 specific issues: (i) The Academy must clearly demonstrate that it is the leading unit in implementing the Party's directives, resolutions, and conclusions on innovation in education, training, and military, national defense, and security, focusing on Conclusion No. 91, dated August 12, 2024 of the 13th Politburo on continuing to implement Resolution No. 29, dated November 4, 2013 of the 11th Party Central Committee "On fundamental and comprehensive innovation in education and training, meeting the requirements of industrialization and modernization in the context of a socialist-oriented market economy and international integration" and Resolution of the 8th Central Committee (13th tenure) on the Strategy for protecting the Fatherland in the new situation. (ii) Continue to strongly innovate the program, content, training methods, and school management in a scientific and modern direction with the motto "The quality of training of the school is the combat readiness of the unit". The highest goal of training at the Academy is to build a modern cadre team following the motto "people first, guns later", modern in thinking and working methods. Training content must be close to the national defense and security tasks, the development of the Army; profound in theory, rich in practice, updated and supplemented with theoretical knowledge, new information on modern military science, especially theory and practice on defending the Fatherland in the new situation, suitable for the combat objects and practical methods of conducting war in the world today. (iii) Focus on digital transformation, management, exploitation of big data, development of digital education, smart education, creative education, education adapted to the development of artificial intelligence, building digital academies, smart academies.
Developing military art is not only to firmly protect the Fatherland from early on, from afar, and to defend the country when it is not yet in danger; more importantly, we must make the most of opportunities, turn challenges into opportunities, constantly strengthen national defense potential, and increase Vietnam's contribution to peace and stability in the region and the world.
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