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Vietnam People's Armed Forces

Overall military and security establishment of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam

Field	Value
country	Vietnam
name	Vietnam People's Armed Forces
native_name	Lực lượng vũ trang nhân dân Việt Nam
image	Emblem of Vietnam.svg150px
caption	Emblem of Vietnam
image2	[[File:Emblem VPA.svg	90px]][[File:Vietnam People's Public Security Emblem.png	120px]][[File:Head badge of the Vietnam Self-Defence Militia.svg	90px]]
caption2	Emblems of the People's Armed Forces' components
motto	Không có gì quý hơn độc lập tự do (Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty)
branches	Flag of the People's Army of Vietnam.svg People's Army
Flag of the People's Public Security of Vietnam.svg People's Public Security Forces

headquarters	Hanoi, Vietnam
flying_hours
commander-in-chief	Party General Secretary and General Tô Lâm
commander-in-chief_title	Flag of the Communist Party of Vietnam.svg Secretary of the Central Military Commission
chief minister	State President and General Lương Cường
chief minister_title	Vietnam Chairman of the National Defense and Security Council
minister	Army General Phan Văn Giang
minister_title	Vietnam Deputy Secretary of the Central Military Commission & Minister of National Defence
chief_of_staff	Police General Lương Tam Quang
chief_of_staff_title	Flag of the People's Public Security of Vietnam.svg Secretary of the Public Security Party Central Committee & Minister of Public Security
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Flag of the People's Public Security of Vietnam.svg People's Public Security Forces

Flag of the Vietnam Self-Defence Militia.svg Militia and Self-Defence Forces | commander-in-chief = Party General Secretary and General Tô Lâm | commander-in-chief_title = Flag of the Communist Party of Vietnam.svg Secretary of the Central Military Commission

The Vietnam People's Armed Forces () are the armed uniformed services and national security forces of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, and should not be confused with the People’s Army of Vietnam. The Armed Forces are placed under the political leadership of the sole-ruling Communist Party of Vietnam and under the supreme command of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of Vietnam headed by the General Secretary. It consists of three components: the Vietnam People's Army which is the military of Vietnam, the Vietnam People's Public Security which is the law enforcement agency (police) of Vietnam and Vietnam Militia and Self-Defence Force which is the militia of Vietnam.

People's Army of Vietnam

The People's Army of Vietnam (alternatively Vietnam People's Army; Vietnamese: Quân đội nhân dân Việt Nam) is the mainline military force of Vietnam. The PAVN includes: the Vietnam People's Ground Force (including major components like the Special Forces of Vietnam), the Vietnam People's Navy (including Naval Infantry, Naval Special Operation Force and Naval Air Force), the Vietnam People's Air Force (Air Defence - Air Force), the Vietnam Border Guard and the Vietnam Coast Guard.

People's Public Security of Vietnam

The People's Public Security of Vietnam (Vietnamese: Công an nhân dân Việt Nam) is the main police, and security force of Vietnam.

The People's Public Security Forces is the core force of the people's armed forces in performing the task of protecting national security and ensuring social order and safety, and crime prevention and control.

The People's Public Security Forces has the functions, tasks, organization, command, and ensures that the operation, service regimes, and regimes and policies of the People's Police comply with the provisions of the Law on People's Public Security and regulations of the People's Public Security other provisions of relevant laws. The State builds a revolutionary, regular, elite, and step-by-step modernized People's Mobile Police Command; prioritize the modernization of some forces. The People's Public Security Forces shall coordinate with the People's Army and Militia and Self-Defense in performing national defense tasks. The coordination between the People's Public Security and the People's Army and Militia and Self-Defense shall comply with the Government's regulations.

Vietnam Militia and Self-Defence Force

The Vietnam Militia and Self-Defence Force is the militia of Vietnam.

Militia and Self-Defense forces are mass armed forces that cannot separate from production and work; is the force protecting the Party, the government, the people's lives and properties, and the State's property in the locality and grassroots; ready to fight, to serve in combat, to be the core of the fight against the enemy in the locality and grassroots when there is a war; participate in building the all-people national defense, defense sector, civil defense, protect national security and ensure social order and safety, fight against crime. The State builds a strong and widespread Militia and Self-Defense force. The organization, tasks, service regime and regimes and policies of the Vietnam Militia and Self-Defense shall comply with the provisions of the Law on Militia and Self-Defense and other relevant laws.

References

VNA (December 22, 2023). "Vietnam People's Army’s founding anniversary marked in South Sudan", VietnamPlus, Vietnam News Agency (VNA). https://en.vietnamplus.vn/vietnam-peoples-armys-founding-anniversary-marked-in-south-sudan/275304.vnp
VOV.VN (June 22, 2023). "Defence co-operation key pillar of Vietnam-Cuba relations", THE VOICE OF VIETNAM.https://english.vov.vn/en/politics/defence-co-operation-key-pillar-of-vietnam-cuba-relations-post1028048.vov

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