On the afternoon of August 20, General Nguyen Tan Cuong - Member of the Party Central Committee, Member of the Central Military Commission, Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People's Army (VPA), Deputy Minister of National Defense - chaired the ceremony to announce the decision to establish the Artillery - missile Command.
On behalf of the Central Military Commission and the Ministry of National Defense, General Nguyen Tan Cuong emphasized that the establishment of the Artillery - missile Command is a very important event, demonstrating the new thinking and new vision of the Politburo and the Central Military Commission on adjusting the organization of the Army's forces, increasingly better meeting the requirements of the cause of building, strengthening national defense and defending the Fatherland in the current period.
Faced with increasingly high task requirements, the Artillery - missile Command is organized and built in a streamlined, compact, strong, and modern direction; the scale, organization of forces, functions, and tasks are supplemented more heavily; equipped with many types of weapons, means, and modernity, with a broader strategic arrangement.
To successfully complete the assigned functions and tasks, General Nguyen Tan Cuong requested the Artillery - missile Command to continue to thoroughly grasp the above resolutions and conclusions on military and defense tasks; educate and raise awareness and responsibility for all officers and soldiers on the task of protecting the Fatherland in the new situation.
General Nguyen Tan Cuong noted that the Artillery and missile Command should continue to do a good job of strategic consultation with the Central Military Commission and the Ministry of National Defense on the strategic arrangement of artillery and missile units throughout the army, especially newly established units, building a comprehensively strong agency and unit that is "exemplary and typical".
Quickly stabilize the organization of staffing, assignment and assignment of specific tasks in the Party Committee and the Command; perfect the Party Committee, Party organization, command organization, mass organizations in newly established units, deploy activities in accordance with the functions and tasks of building strong organizations, excellently completing all assigned tasks;
Continue basic, synchronous, in-depth training, close to combat reality, attach importance to practical training, combined with imparting combat experience to the army, in-depth and specifically studying the use of artillery and missiles in recent conflicts to include in training, education - training; at the same time, focus on building Party committees and Party organizations at all levels to be truly clean and strong, taking care of building a team of cadres and staff capable of completing immediate and long-term tasks...
