National Defense and Security Education Practice Questions

Vocabulary-style flashcards covering the key concepts, historical dates, military art, and legal definitions found in the National Defense and Security Education lecture notes.

Object of study for National Defense and Security Education

Research on the Party's military guidelines, national defense and security work, and necessary military skills.

Conditions for taking the final exam

Attending at least $80\%$ of class and field training time, having all required tests, and each test score must be $5$ or higher.

National Defense and Security Education status

A mandatory core subject in the undergraduate training program and a condition for graduation.

Scientific approach perspectives

Systematic, historical, logic, and practical viewpoints.

Marxist-Leninist view on the essence of war

A political and social phenomenon, specifically the continuation of politics by means of violence.

Deep-rooted origin of war

The appearance and existence of private ownership of the means of production.

Immediate origin of war

The emergence and existence of social classes and class contradictions.

Decisive factor for victory in war (Ho Chi Minh view)

Human beings.

Precursor of the Vietnam People's Army

The Vietnam Propaganda Unit for National Liberation, established on December 22, 1944.

Functions of the Vietnam People's Army

Fighting, production, and mass mobilization work.

Basic missions of the military (Ho Chi Minh view)

Building an increasingly strong army that is always ready to fight.

National Defense and Security Potential

The capability in human, material, and financial resources that can be mobilized to perform national defense and security tasks.

Political-Spiritual Potential

The basic factor creating the strength of national defense and security, impacting the efficiency of construction and use of other potentials.

All-people national defense foundation

Built on human, material, and spiritual resources, characterized as all-people, comprehensive, independent, and self-reliant.

Characteristics of Vietnam's national defense and security

For the people, of the people, and carried out by the entire population.

Target of the People's War to protect the Motherland

Hostile forces taking action to sabotage, invade, or overthrow the revolution.

Nature of the People's War

A just war for self-defense, comprehensive and all-people, with the armed forces as the core under Party leadership.

People's Armed Forces components

The People's Army, the Militia and Self-Defense Forces, and the People's Public Security.

Binh quy ho tinh, bat quy ho da

An ancestral tradition in military building meaning quality is more important than quantity.

Four-factor direction for building the military and police

Revolutionary, regular, elite, and gradual modernization.

Regularity (Chính quy) in the military

Uniformity in goals, action, organization, and regulations.

Elite (Tinh nhuệ) in terms of organization

A lean and light organizational structure that still meets all assigned mission requirements.

Theoretical basis for combining economy with national defense

Socio-economics determines the provision of technical facilities and the strength of national defense and security.

Ngụ binh ư nông

A historical policy of lodging soldiers in farms, reflecting the combination of economy and national defense.

Dual-use (Lưỡng dụng)

A characteristic of infrastructure or industrial production that serves both civilian and military/defense purposes.

Vietnam's coastline length

$3260\,km$.

Vietnam's Territorial Sea (Lãnh hải)

A sea zone extending $12$ nautical miles from the baseline.

Vietnam's Exclusive Economic Zone (Vùng đặc quyền kinh tế)

An area where the coastal state has sovereign rights to explore, exploit, and manage resources, typically extending $200$ nautical miles.

Internal Waters (Nội thủy)

The sea area located on the landward side of the baseline used to measure the territorial sea width.

Dien Bien Phu Campaign duration

$56$ days and nights, ending on May 7, 1954.

National Resistance Call (Lời kêu gọi toàn quốc kháng chiến)

Issued by Ho Chi Minh on December 19, 1946.

Tien phat che nhan

A military tactic used by Ly Thuong Kiet meaning to proactively attack first to push the enemy into a passive state.

Militia and Self-Defense Forces (Dân quân tự vệ)

A mass armed force not separated from production and work.

Reserve Mobilization Forces

Consists of reserve soldiers and technical equipment already arranged according to mobilization plans.

All-people movement for National Security protection

A voluntary, organized form of mass activity to prevent, detect, and fight against crimes.

National Security (An ninh quốc gia)

The stability and sustainable development of the socialist regime and the inviolability of independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity.

Social Order and Safety (Trật tự, an toàn xã hội)

A peaceful state of society where people live securely based on legal norms and ethical standards.

Core force for protecting social order and safety

The People's Public Security (Công an nhân dân).

Internal Political Security (An ninh chính trị nội bộ)

A content of national security focusing on protecting the Party, the State, and the political regime from internal and external threats.

Number of types of crimes against national security (2015/2017 Penal Code)

$14$ types.