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.jpg) The headquarters of the Ministry of National Defence inHanoi | |
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| Formed | 27 August 1945 |
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| Type | Government Ministry |
| Jurisdiction |  Government of Vietnam |
| Headquarters | 7 Nguyen Tri Phuong Street, Dien Bien Ward, Ba Dinh District,Hanoi |
| Employees | 450,000 military[2] |
| Annual budget | $7.8 bn (2023 projection) |
| Minister responsible |
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| Deputy Minister responsible | |
| Website | Official Website |
TheMinistry of National Defence (MND;Vietnamese:Bộ Quốc phòng-BQP), alternatively theMinistry of Defence (MoD), fully theMinistry of Defence of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (or theMinistry of National Defence of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam;Vietnamese:Bộ Quốc phòng nước Cộng hòa xã hội chủ nghĩa Việt Nam,lit. 'Ministry of State Defence of the nation of Socialist Republic of Viet Nam'),[3] is the governmental ministry of theSocialist Republic of Vietnam that manages, coordinates and supervises military affairs, including all units of the military, paramilitary, and similar agencies in the country. The major office of the Ministry of National Defence is located within the ancientHanoi Citadel. The ministry is operated in compliance with theConstitution and Laws of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, ideologically under the leadership of theCommunist Party of Vietnam and the unified State management of theVietnamese Government. It runs thePeople's Army Newspaper and theMilitary Broadcasting Center (QPVN;Vietnamese:Kênh Truyền hình Quốc phòng Việt Nam,lit. 'National Defence Television Channel of Viet Nam') together with theCentral Military Commission of the Communist Party of Vietnam. Besides press and media agencies, the Ministry of National Defence also owns and administers a number ofenterprises, notably theViettel Military Industry and Telecoms Group besides many core businesses of the Vietnamesedefence industry.
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According to the 1992 Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, the Ministry of National Defence holds the supreme command of theVietnam People's Army (VPA) and other paramilitary units.[4] The command organisation of the ministry is composed of the central office, theGeneral Staff (Bộ Tổng tham mưu), theGeneral Political Department of the People's Army (Tổng cục chính trị) and other general 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 theCommunist 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 orTổng 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).[5]
The following is the structure of the central organisation of the Ministry of National Defence:[6]
The Ministry of National Defence is the supreme command of theVietnam People's Army - VPA which contains several arms and army corps, the Vietnam People's Ground Forces, theVietnamese People's Navy – VPN, theVietnamese People's Air Force – Air Defence – VPAF-AD, theVietnam Border Guard – VBG and theVietnam Coast Guard – VCG. 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 ofHanoi.[6]
The principal and core military force of Vietnam is the Vietnam People's Army - VPA[7] with a regular force of 450,000 soldiers and officers and the reserve force of about 5 million.[2] The land-based units of the VPA consists of four army corps (quân đoàn):1st,2nd,3rd and4th; six arms (binh chủng): Artillery, Tank and Armor Warfare, Sappers, Signals, Engineers and Chemical; seven military regions (quân khu) and one command (bộ tư lệnh):1st,2nd,3rd,4th,5th,7th,9th military regions and the High Command of the Capital City of Hanoi.[8] 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).[9]
Besides, the Ministry of National Defence also manages a system of academies, universities and research institutes with a total number of 43 schools include: 12 academies (học viện), 12 universities schools (trường đại học) and 11 colleges schools (trường cao đẳng) and 08 intermediates levels schools (trường trung cấp). The principal academy of the ministry if theNational Defence Academy (Học viện Quốc phòng), it is the only institution for training strategical officers.[10] The Ministry of National Defence has its own branch of economic organisations[11] which contains theViettel Mobile, one of the leading mobile network operator in Vietnam.
The annual budget of the Ministry of National Defence occupies approximately 2% of theGDP 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:[12]
| Year | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2023 projection | |
| GDP of Vietnam | 839,211 | 973,791 | 1,143,442 | 1,490,000 | 11,150,705[13][14] | 470 |
| Ministry's budget | 16,278 | 20,577 | 28,922 | 27,024 | 185,235[15] | 7.807 |
| % per GDP | 1.872% | 2.194% | 2.529% | 1.813% | 1.661% | |
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