Building 'people's determination posture' in Vietnam - theory, reality and prospect

• Author: Nguyen Ba Duong
• Position: Institute for Military Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam
• Pages: 29-40

European Journal of Economics, Law and Social Sciences

IIPCCL Publishing, Graz-Austria

Vol. 3 No. 1

January, 2019

ISSN 2519-1284

Acces online at www.iipccl.org

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Building “people’s determination posture” in Vietnam - theory, reality and

prospect

Assoc. Prof. Nguyen Ba Duong

Institute for Military Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam

Abstract

Before 2005, in terms of building “people’s determination posture” in Vietnam, most of

scientists focused on arrangement, placement and allocation of material factors, including

human and equipment (physical strength) according to certain combat plans, rather than

researching on arrangement and placement of political - mental factor (people’s determination),

which is the absolute advantage of Vietnamese nation in history of thousand years of building

and protecting Vietnamese country. In all times, the political - mental strength of the whole

Vietnamese national unity is always highlighted and promoted.

Since 2005, the terms of “people’s determination posture” and building “people’s determination

posture” have been used widely in documents and literature in Vietnam. This means leaders

of Vietnam are paying more a entions to “people’s determination” and to building “people’s

determination posture” in order to mobilize, gather and promote activeness and creativeness

of factors of “people’s determination”, of which the most important ones are patriotism,

national pride, and trust of all people, to create solid foundation for building people’s defense

posture and people’s security posture.

This is not only a entions but also the requirement of developing theoretical thinking of the

leaders of Vietnam in order to enhance strength for protecting Vietnamese Fatherland in the

new context, to make national defense and security become a real “crucial and regular” task,

of which political - mental strength is the very foundation. This is a ma er of principle of

inheriting and promoting tradition of fi ghting enemies and protecting Vietnamese country in

the new era.

Keywords: people’s determination, people’s determination posture, mental factor, patriotism,

national unity.

Introduction

“People’s determination” is a concept denoting psychological, political - mental status

of people, demonstrating degrees of satisfaction, trust or dissatisfaction and lack

of trust in life and socio-political regime, refl ecting patriotism, solidarity, decisive

will to win, understanding, a itude, emotion, belief, agreement and consensus on

the regime in building the entire people’s defense posture and the people’s security

posture.

“People’s determination” is demonstrated by:

- Psychological status, political - mental consciousness of people;

- Satisfaction, a itude, emotion, belief, and consensus of people.

- Patriotism, unity, unanimity; determination to win, responsibilities and obligations

of citizens.

- Enthusiasm to implement guidelines and policies “matching people’s determination”

of the State.