The Ministry of National Defence ( vi, Bộ Quốc phòng, abbreviated as MoD for ''Ministry of Defence'' in
English
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or BQP for ''Bộ Quốc phòng'' in
Vietnamese) is the governmental ministry of the
Socialist Republic of Vietnam that manages, coordinates and supervises military affairs, including all military units, paramilitary units, and similar agencies in the country. The major office of the Ministry of National Defence is located within the ancient
Hanoi Citadel
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. The ministry is operated under the
Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
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as well as other various laws.
The Ministry publishes the newspaper together with the
Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of Vietnam.
Organisation
Command structure
According to the 1992 Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, the Ministry of National Defence holds the supreme command of the
Vietnam People's Army
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and other paramilitary units. The command organisation of the ministry is composed of the central office, the
General Staff (''Bộ Tổng tham mưu''), the
General Political Department of the People's Army (''Tổng cục chính trị'') and other general departments, departments.
The General Staff is the commanding and co-ordinating institution of the Vietnam People's Army and other paramilitary units, it is currently directed by the Chief of the General Staff and Deputy Minister of Defence who would be also acting minister during the absence of the minister in office. The General Political Department takes charge of political, moral and other activities in the military forces related to the
Communist Party of Vietnam, the Department of Politics also operates the system of military court and procuracy.
The General Political Department is under the leadership activities of the Secretariat and often operations under the directly authority of the Central Military Commission. Other general departments (''Tổng cục'') of the ministry are General Department of Engineering (''Tổng cục Kỹ thuật''), General Department of Logistics (''Tổng cục Hậu cần''), General Department of Military Industries and Manufacture (''Tổng cục Công nghiệp quốc phòng'') and General Department of Military Intelligence (''Tổng cục Tình báo quốc phòng'' or
Tổng cục 2). Directly under the ministry are also the Search and Rescue Operations Department (''Cục Cứu hộ, cứu nạn'') and Department of Foreign Relations (''Cục Đối ngoại'').
The command structure of the ministry is coordinated by the Central Office (Văn phòng Bộ) which acts at the same time as office of the Central Party Committee of the military forces (Quân ủy Trung ương).
The following is the structure of the central organisation of the Ministry of National Defence:
[Ministry of Defence (2009), ''White book'', p. 109]
Components
The Ministry of National Defence is the supreme command of the
People's Army of Vietnam which contains several arms and army corps, the Vietnam People's Ground Forces, the
Vietnamese People's Navy
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, the
Vietnamese People's Air Force and Air Defence, the
Vietnam Border Guard and the
Vietnam Coast Guard
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. To organise the military activities and units, the territory of Vietnam is divided into 7 military regions and the Capital High Command which contains the region of
Hanoi
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.
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The principal and core military force of Vietnam is the Vietnam People's Army (VPA) with a regular force of 450,000 soldiers and officers and the reserve force of about 5 million.] The land-based units of the VPA consists of four army corps (''quân đoàn''): 1st, 2nd, 3rd
Third or 3rd may refer to:
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and 4th; six arms (''binh chủng''): Artillery, Tank and Armoured Warfare, Sappers, Signals, Engineers and Chemical; seven military regions (''quân khu'') and one command (''bộ tư lệnh''): 1st, 2nd, 3rd
Third or 3rd may refer to:
Numbers
* 3rd, the ordinal form of the cardinal number 3
* , a fraction of one third
* 1⁄60 of a ''second'', or 1⁄3600 of a ''minute''
Places
* 3rd Street (disambiguation)
* Third Avenue (disambiguation)
* H ...
, 4th, 5th Military Region, 7th Military Region, 9th Military Region and the High Command of the Capital City of Hanoi. The border guard, coast guard, air force-air defence and the navy are organised as arms of the VPA, the navy in particular is divided in five naval regions (''vùng hải quân'') (from 1st to 5th).
Besides, the Ministry of National Defence also manages a system of academies, universities and research institutes with a total number of 21 academies (''học viện''), universities (''trường đại học'') and one college (''trường cao đẳng''). The principal academy of the ministry if the Vietnam Academy of Defence (Học viện Quốc phòng), it is the only institution for training strategical officers. The Ministry of National Defence has its own branch of economic organisations[Ministry of Defence (2009), ''White book'', p. 81] which contains the Viettel Mobile, one of the leading mobile network operator in Vietnam.
Budget
The annual budget of the Ministry of National Defence occupies approximately 2% of the GDP of Vietnam. The major portion of the budget is used for maintenance of officers, NCOs, soldiers and their readiness for action. Following are the ministry's budgets of recent years:[Ministry of Defence (2009), ''White book'', p. 38]
List of Ministers
References
Notes
Bibliography
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* Ministry of Defense, Socialist Republic of Vietnam, ''Vietnam's National Defense in the Early Years of the 21st Century,'' Ha Noi, 2004.
External links
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Defence
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Governmental office in Hanoi
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People's Army of Vietnam