President Luong Cuong this morning visited and attended the opening ceremony of the new school year 2025-2026 at the National Defense Academy.

Senior Lieutenant General Tran Viet Khoa, Director of the National Defense Academy, said that in the 2024-2025 school year, the Academy organized 18 concentrated training courses, including 12 trainees who are senior officials of the Party, State, Vietnam People's Army; and senior officers of the armies of several countries.

The Academy has been proactive and pioneering in updating the situation, thoroughly grasping the Party's guidelines and viewpoints, closely following the country's reality, national defense and security tasks, and the development of the armed forces and army, and incorporating them into training content and programs.

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President Luong Cuong visits the National Defense Academy Library. Photo: VNA

The Academy has carried out research on many national and Ministry of National Defense level scientific topics; actively researched and summarized practical experiences, especially advising and proposing to the Central Military Commission and the Ministry of National Defense on a number of issues related to military and national defense.

The Academy has also implemented many drastic measures to improve the quality of its staff and lecturers; proactively built material and technical facilities to meet the requirements of management, operation, training organization, scientific research; promoted defense cooperation...

In his speech, President Luong Cuong stated that after nearly 50 years of establishment and development, the National Defense Academy has trained tens of thousands of senior military officers; fostered defense and security knowledge for thousands of senior officials of the Party, State, and armed forces. The Academy has also trained hundreds of doctors and masters of military science, hundreds of senior military officers of several countries; and organized many international defense officer training courses for students from 34 countries around the world.

The President affirmed that the Academy is a bright spot in scientific research, strategic advice, theoretical development, improving the leadership, direction and management capacity of the Party and State in national defense and security, contributing to building the army, consolidating national defense, protecting the Fatherland early and from afar, maintaining political and social stability, creating a solid foundation for the cause of building and protecting the Fatherland.

To effectively perform its functions and tasks in the new period, the President requested that the Academy continue to proactively and seriously implement the Party's guidelines and policies, the State's policies and laws on national defense and security, and the requirements and tasks of building a team of senior officials of the Party, State, and Army...

The President noted that it is necessary to regularly update new knowledge on military science, especially modern combat methods, multi-domain operations, high-tech warfare, cyber warfare... theories and practices on protecting the Fatherland in the context of complicated developments in traditional and non-traditional security.

Along with that, the President emphasized the need to promote scientific research, strategic consulting, and development of Vietnamese military art; thoroughly grasp and effectively implement Resolution 57 of the Politburo on breakthroughs in science and technology development, innovation, and national digital transformation; do a good job of summarizing practices and developing military, defense, and security theories, especially in protecting the Fatherland early and from afar.

The Academy needs to improve the quality of defense diplomacy activities and expand international cooperation; cooperation activities need to be diverse, closely and vividly combining knowledge exchange and sharing with promoting the image and position of the country, people, and Vietnam's peaceful, self-defense, and just defense policy.

Regarding leadership, the President said that it is necessary to build a truly clean and strong Party Committee of the Academy, exemplary in terms of politics, ideology, ethics, organization and staff.

Each cadre, party member, lecturer and scientist of the Academy must be a shining example of political courage, moral qualities, intelligence and practical capacity.

The President suggested that the Academy should quickly review, standardize, and modernize the system of regulations, rules, and criteria for studying and training, and persistently build a modern, humane, and progressive pedagogical environment. In addition, the Academy needs to promote the application of science and technology, digital transformation, artificial intelligence, big data, and virtual reality simulation in teaching and training; administration, and building a "Smart Academy". Building the Academy not only as a center for training, scientific research, and strategic advice, but also as a center for guiding the building of a national defense.

For the students, the President requested that they fully and deeply understand the increasingly high requirements for thinking, vision, mettle, qualities, and capacity of cadres of the Party, State, and armed forces in the new era; proactively study, practice, research practices, and improve their capacity for analysis, forecasting, consulting, commanding, and modern management.

The President emphasized that investment in building the National Defense Academy into a truly modern military, defense, and security training and scientific research center on par with other countries in the region and the world.

Source: https://vietnamnet.vn/chu-tich-nuoc-can-cap-nhat-thuong-xuyen-kien-thuc-moi-ve-tac-chien-hien-dai-2442581.html