What are functions of the Vietnam People's Army?
What are functions of the Vietnam People's Army?
Based on Article 25 of the National Defense Law 2018, the People's Army is defined as follows:
Article 25. People's Army
- The People's Army is the core force of the people's armed forces in carrying out national defense tasks, including regular forces and reserve mobilization forces. The regular forces of the People's Army consist of the Main Army and Local Army.
December 22 each year is designated as the traditional day of the People's Army and the All-People's National Defense Festival.
- The People's Army has the function and duty of being ready to fight, to defend the Fatherland; carrying out the tasks of advocacy and propaganda of the Communist Party's policy, the State's policies, and laws; engaging in production labor, integrating defense with socio-economic development, participating in civil defense, along with the entire population in building the nation; fulfilling international obligations.
- The State builds the People's Army to be revolutionary, regular, elite, and gradually modern, with a reasonable regular force and a strong reserve mobilization force; some forces advance directly to modernization.
- The organization, duties, service policies, and policies of the People's Army are governed by the Law on Officers of the Vietnam People's Army, the Law on Professional Soldiers, Defense Workers, and Public Employees, the Law on Military Service, and other relevant legal regulations.
Thus, the Vietnam People's Army has the function and duty of being ready to fight and protect the Fatherland; undertaking advocacy work, propagating the Vietnam Communist Party's directives, the State's policies, and laws; engaging in production labor, combining national defense with socio-economic activities, participating in civil defense, and building the country alongside the entire population; fulfilling international obligations.
What are functions of the Vietnam People's Army? (Image from the Internet)
What is the highest military rank for the position of officer in the Vietnam People's Army?
Based on Article 15 of the Law on Officers of the Vietnam People's Army 1999 (amended by Clause 3 Article 1 of the Amended Law on Officers of the Vietnam People's Army 2014), the highest ranks for officer positions are specified as follows:
[1] General
- Minister of National Defense
- Chief of the General Staff; Chairman of the General Political Department
[2] Senior Lieutenant General, Admiral
- Deputy Minister of National Defense with a maximum rank of Senior Lieutenant General, Admiral not exceeding six
- Deputy Chief of General Staff, Deputy Chairman of the General Political Department: each position has a maximum rank of Senior Lieutenant General not exceeding three
- Director, Political Commissar of the National Defense Academy
[3] Lieutenant General, Vice Admiral
- Commander, Political Commissar: Military Zones, Services, Border Defense Forces; Heads of the General Departments, Director-General, Political Commissar of the General Departments; Head of the Government Cipher Department
- Commander, Political Commissar of the Commands: Hanoi Capital, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Coast Guard
- Director, Political Commissar of the Academies: Army, Politics, Military Engineering, Logistics, Military Medicine
- Rector, Political Commissar of Officer Schools: Army I, Army II, Politics
- Deputy Director of the National Defense Academy not exceeding three Lieutenant Generals; Deputy Political Commissar of the National Defense Academy with the rank of Lieutenant General being one
- Heads of departments: Operations, Military Training, Military Strength, Militia and Self Defense, Organization, Personnel, Propaganda, Schools, Electronic Warfare, Information Technology, Rescue - Emergency, Foreign Affairs
- Chief Inspector of the Ministry of National Defense; Chief Justice of the Central Military Court and Deputy Chief Justice of the Supreme People's Court; Prosecutor General of the Central Military Procuracy and Deputy Prosecutor General of the Supreme People's Procuracy
- Chief of the Central Military Commission Office - Ministry of National Defense Office
- Director of the National Defense Strategy Institute
- Director of 108 Military Central Hospital
[4] Major General, Rear Admiral
- Commander, Political Commissar: Army Corps, Branches, Naval Regions, Coast Guard Regions
- Heads of departments: Military Security Protection, Military Science, Finance, Planning and Investment, Military Medicine, Criminal Investigation, Standards - Measurement - Quality, People's Mobilization, Policy, Economy, Cipher, Barracks, Technology Management, Mapping, Logistics, Oil, Transport, Ordnance, Vehicles - Machinery, Technical Branches, Training - Education, Ground Air Defense, Reconnaissance, Anti-Drug Trafficking, Cryptography Operations Management; departments 11, 12, 16, 25, and 71
- Director: Military Science and Technology Institute, Vietnam Military History Institute, Institute 26, Institute 70
- Director, Political Commissar of the Academies: Air Defense - Air Force, Navy, Border Defense, Military Science
- Director of the Cryptography Technical Academy
- Commanders of the Defense - Economic Corps: 11, 12, 15, 16, and 18
- Commander and Political Commissar of the Command for the Protection of Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum
- Political Director: Military Zones, Services, Border Defense Forces, National Defense Academy, General Staff, General Department of Logistics, General Department of Engineering, General Department of Defense Industry, General Department II; Head of the Political Department under the General Political Department
- One Deputy Chief of Staff is a Secretary or Deputy Secretary of the Communist Party Committee of the Military Zone, Service, Border Defense Bureau
- One Deputy Political Director is Secretary or Deputy Secretary of the Communist Party Committee of the Political Department of the Military Zone, Service, Border Defense Bureau
- Editor-in-Chief of the People's Army Newspaper, Editor-in-Chief of the All-People's National Defense Magazine
- Director of the Army Radio - Television Center
- General Director, one Deputy General Director is Secretary of the Communist Party Committee of the Military Telecommunications Group
- General Director of the Vietnam-Russia Tropical Center
- Directors of Hospitals: Hospital 175, Hospital 103, Institute of Traditional Medicine of the Army, National Burns Institute
- Heads of departments of the National Defense Academy: Marxist-Leninist Theory; Communist Party, Political Work; Strategy; Operations
- Assistant to the Minister of National Defense, Director of the Legal Department, Chief of Staff of the General Staff Office, Chief of Staff of the General Political Department
- Deputy positions of the heads specified in point [3] with the highest rank of Major General, numbers as follows:
+ For the Political Commissar, it is one
+ For the Heads of the General Department, Director-General, Commander of the Military Zone not exceeding four
+ For the Commander of the Service not exceeding six
+ For the Commander of the Border Defense Force not exceeding five
+ For the Heads of the Operations Department, Military Training Department not exceeding three
+ For Directors of the Army Academy, Political Academy, Military Engineering Academy, Logistics Academy, Military Medicine Academy not exceeding three
+ For Presidents of Officer School I, Officer School II, Political Officer School not exceeding three
+ For Head of the Government Cipher Department, Commander of Command Hanoi Capital, Commander of Command Ho Chi Minh City, Commander of the Vietnam Coast Guard, Chief Inspector of the Ministry of National Defense not exceeding three
+ For the Director of the Military Strength Department, Militia and Self-Defense Department, Organization Department, Personnel Department, Propaganda Department, Schools Department, Electronic Warfare Department, Information Technology Department, Rescue - Emergency Department, Foreign Affairs Department, Chief Judge of the Central Military Court, Prosecutor General of the Central Military Procuracy, Chief of the Central Military Commission Office - Ministry of National Defense Office, Director of the National Defense Strategy Institute not exceeding two
+ For the Director of the 108 Military Central Hospital, it is one
[5] Colonel
- Division Commander, Political Commissar of Division; Commander, Political Commissar of Provincial Military Command; Commander, Political Commissar of Provincial Border Defense Command
- Brigade Commander, Political Commissar of Brigade
[6] Lieutenant Colonel: Regiment Commander, Political Commissar of Regiment; Commander, Political Instructor of District Military Command
[7] Major: Battalion Commander, Political Instructor of Battalion
[8] Captain: Company Commander, Political Instructor of Company
[9] Lieutenant: Platoon Leader
What are regulations on the rank system for pfficers of the Vietnam People's Army?
Based on Article 10 of the Law on Officers of the Vietnam People's Army 1999, the officer rank system consists of three levels, twelve ranks:
- Officer levels have four ranks: Second Lieutenant; First Lieutenant; Captain; Major.
- Colonel levels have four ranks: Lieutenant Colonel; Major; Lieutenant Colonel; Colonel.
- General levels have four ranks: Major General, Rear Admiral; Lieutenant General, Vice Admiral; Senior Lieutenant General, Admiral; General.
