Vietnam: Contents of building the entire-people defense

According to Article 8 of the Law on National Defense 2005 of Vietnam, contents of building the entire-people defense include:

1. Formulating a strategy for defending the Fatherland, plans on national defense; building comprehensively strong defense forces and potentials; building up the entire-people unity bloc and strengthening the political system.

2. Building the people's armed forces to act as the core, to be all-sidedly strong, to have high fighting capacity; building the People's Army and the People's Police into revolutionary, regular, elite and gradually modern ones.

3. Carrying out defense education in agencies, organizations and for citizens.

4. Investing in the construction of material and technical foundations for the entire-people defense; researching into and finalizing the Vietnamese military strategy and arts; developing the defense industry, military science and technology; mobilizing the scientific and technological potentials of the State and people in service of national defense and at the same time properly applying the achievements of military science and technology to national construction.

5. Preparing plans for defense mobilization and necessary conditions for realization of defense mobilizations in the state of war or the defense emergency state.

The contents of preparing defense mobilization plans shall be stipulated by the Government.

6. Building comprehensively strong defensive areas; enhancing defense and security potentials in key areas, ethnic minority, mountainous, border and island regions.

7. Formulating and implementing regimes and policies suitable to the conditions and nature of activities of the people's armed forces, policies towards families of persons serving in the people's armed forces.

8. Formulating and implementing civil defense plans and measures nationwide.

9. Performing the state management over defense, forming and perfecting the system of laws on defense of the Fatherland.

View relevant contents at: The Law on National Defense 2005 of Vietnam was promulgated on June 14, 2005 and effective from January 01, 2006.

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