Vietnam, located in Southeast Asia, is as narrow as a spoon. The land area is about 330,000 square kilometers, and the land area ranks 63rd. 2018 DGP 250 billion US dollars. Ranked 45th in the world. It is ranked sixth in ASEAN (first in Indonesia). In terms of military strength, it can be said to be the first, even Thailand and Indonesia may not be able to lightly defeat Vietnam.
The supreme military leading organ of Vietnam is the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of Vietnam, and the nominal supreme military leader is the president of the state, but in fact the supreme command is the general secretary of Vietnam. That is, the central secretary of the Central Military Commission, the highest controller of professional officers is the deputy secretary of the Military Commission, the minister of national defense. It consists of the General Staff Department, the Political Department, the Quartermaster Department, and the Army, Navy, And Air Force. The country is divided into eight military regions. The Vietnamese military has about 500,000 active duty troops and can mobilize 6 million people in wartime. Vietnam can achieve a state of soldierhood for all. The British "Jane's Defence Weekly" made the following comments on Vietnam in the annual evaluation of your year in 2016:
36th in the world in terms of comprehensive military strength: 25th in the army military strength, 53rd in the world in air military strength: 34th in the world in naval military strength, 15th in the world in military transport forces: 42nd in the world in war potential, 27th in the world in the total tonnage of the navy. This composite ranks second in ASEAN.
Vietnam's military structure and ranks are basically modeled after those of the former Soviet Union, with Vietnam's highest military rank being General. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, a total of 14 generals have been promoted, namely Wu Yuanjia, who was the first minister of defense of Vietnam, known as the Tiger of Dien Bien Phu. Nguyen Chi Thanh, he was known as "Chairman Mao's Vietnamese student." Vietnam's first commander-in-chief of the three armed forces. General Vinh Jin Yong, this man was the actual commander during the VietnamEse Unification War. Li Sun's most important confidant, General Huang Wentai, was marginalized after Li Sun came to power, and Zhu Huimin was a major general. He was the first to lead his troops to conquer Saigon (Ho Chi Minh). General Le Zhongxun, this person is the number one hero of the invasion of Cambodia. General Le Duc Ying, who later served as president of Vietnam. Ruan Duo, Duan Kui, Fan Wencha, Feng Guangqing, Li Wenyong, Du Bowei, Wu Chunli. From the beginning of Nguyễn Trầnh, he was a feudal general (after 1985). It should be pointed out here that seven of these fourteen generals are alive.
Vietnam is a warlike country that is not militaristic. Military strength and potential should not be underestimated, but the biggest weakness and weakness is that weapons and equipment are basically imported and cannot be used on their own. The follow-up development is also not high. Localization is very low. Vietnam's greatest political dream is to incorporate Laos and Cambodia into the territory and form a Southeast Asian federation. Or become the leader of the Southeast Asian League. Dominating and controlling ASEAN is for its own use. He considers himself a small China in Southeast Asia. The "little overlord" who is proud of one side. But whether from international realities or geopolitics, it is certainly impossible to achieve, economically, militarily, politically. None of the three core forces, Vietnam, has a situation, and Vietnam is doomed to fail to achieve its strategic goals. Vietnam's defeat of "France, the United States" after World War II, coupled with the support of the Soviet Union, led to Vietnam's extreme ambitions and arrogance, but the storm of 1978 sobered up, but Vietnam always took the defense against the eastern powers as its first military strategic principle.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Vietnam quickly reconciled with the United States in order to prevent so-and-so. Vietnam's choice proves a sentence: that is, there is no princess life, but there is a princess's illness. Vietnam's desire to dominate Southeast Asia is a dream that simply cannot be realized. Vietnam wants to be a country like Japan. I hope that the United States will treat Vietnam as it does to Japan, a small but ambitious country that does not have the capacity. Vietnam's consistent instability in Southeast Asia will surely become the "thug" of the United States in the future. This must be highly vigilant.
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