President Nguyen Xuan Phuc awards first-class National Protection Order to the National Defense Academy. Photo: VNA

President Phuc said that amid the COVID-19 pandemic and the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the Academy needs to reform and improve the training of cadres at campaign and strategic levels of the army, build a contingent of cadres who are good at military and national defense and knowledgeable about socio-economic issues and foreign affairs.

He asked the National Defense Academy to closely grasp the situation and better its strategic forecasting ability to offer early counseling to the Central Military Commission and Ministry of National Defense, protect the ideological foundation of the Party, and continue suggesting measures to defeat all malicious plots by hostile forces, thus enhancing Vietnam’s position on the international arena.

The President expressed his belief that under the Party and State's leadership, and the direct helm of the Central Military Commission and the Ministry of National Defense, the NDA would develop stronger and reap greater achievements in the cause of education-training, helping to build a revolutionary, regular, elite and modern Vietnam People’s Army and firmly safeguarding the socialist Fatherland.