Research objectives: Interpret to clarify basic issues in working capability and fostering working capability of political instructors in the district military commanding committee of the Military Region 1; assess the actual situation properly, clarify the cause and from practice draw initial experience in fostering working capability of political instructors in the district military commanding committee of the Military Region 1; identify the needs and propose main solutions in fostering working capability of political instructors in the district military commanding committee of the Military Region 1 today.
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The topic "Foster working capacity of political instructors in the district military commanding committee of the Military Region 1 today",
specialty: Development of the Party and the State Government; code: 62.31.02.03 is the issue that has been concerned, cherished and studied by the author for many years. Currently, facing the complicated and unpredictable situation of the world, the region and in the country, especially new development in the local military defense, the Party’s work and political work, high demands on the working capacity of the political instructors in the district military commanding committee in general, in the area of Military Region 1
in particular. For this team to fulfill the responsibilities and tasks, it is inevitable to continue fostering the working capacity. Results of the research issues will contribute to enriching the theory on fostering political instructor staff in the army, building the strong political instructors in the district military commanding committee; however, in the present situation it is a difficult and new topic
With nearly 30 years working in the area of Military Region 1, on the basis of collecting system of documentation, direction, suggestions, and dedicated support of two guidance staff, experts and scientists, enough to allow the author to conduct research of this topic. During the process of deploying this thesis, the author refers to the relevant research results of scientific works in and outside the country. This is an independent research topic, absolutely not overlaping with other published scientific works
2. Reasons for choosing the thesis topic
The local military defense is a very important part in the whole work
of the military and national defense of the Party and State, is conducted in the provinces of the country in peacetime and wartime; is the concretized defense
policy: "Peace and safeguard" to organize and mobilize the masses to
participate in building the national defense; prepare and be ready to wage people’s war protecting the locality and contribute to maintaining national sovereignty and security in the defensive ball for national defense of the country; actively smash and frustrate all schemes, activities of the enemy forces
The Party’s work and political work in the local military defense is a part of the Party’s leadership activities, directly the local committees; a basic aspect of the governments, political social organizations, local military authorities; is overall ideological work, organization and policies in the construction and mobilization of local resources to successfully implement the
Trang 2Political instructors in the district military commanding committee of the Military Region 1 is a very important part of the officer staff in the Military Region, the Party in the armed forces, the people chairing politics in the district military commanding committee, both be responsible for the party’s work and political work in the district military commanding committee, the district’s armed forces, and participate in holding many positions in the party committee, the government, the agencies and local political social organizations. The high or low working capacity of these staff will impact directly on the tasks of local military defense, the party’s work and political work, the results in performing the tasks of the locality and military region. Therefore, in addition to political quality, working style and methods,
to have working capability, political instructor staff must be trained and fostered regularly
Recognizing this issue, leaders, commanders, government at all levels
in the area of Military Region 1 in recent years have frequently take care of fostering to improve the working capability for political instructors, generally the working capability of political instructors in the district military commanding committee has changed to be more progressive, initially meet the mission requirements However, compared with the requirement to strengthen the organization, implementing the Resolution 51NQ/TW of the Politburo and Resolution 513NQ / DUQSTW of the Central Military Party Committee (now the Central Military Commission), fostering the working capability of political instructors in the district military commanding committee still reveals the limitations and shortcomings; the quality and capacity of some political instructors are not yet on a par with the chairing position in politics and chairing the party’s work and political work in the district armed forces. Some political instructors lack knowledge, experience, organizational capacity in the practical party’s work and political work in the local military defense; ability to participate in the activities of the committees, governments, departments, political – social organizations in the locality still too far from the practice
In the coming years, the world and regional situations continue to develop further complicatedly with many potential factors to cause destabilizing, uncertainties and unpredictable issues Especially the
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do a good job in organizing and mobilizing people to well perform the local
military defense and local political tasks. Therefore, the study of "Foster working capacity of political instructors in the district military commanding committee of the Military Region 1 today" is a basic and urgent issue.
3. Research purpose and task
* Research purpose
Interpret to clarify the basic theoretical and practical issues, propose main solutions to foster the working capability of political instructors in the district military commanding committee of the Military Region 1 today
* Research task
Interpret to clarify basic issues in working capability and fostering working capability of political instructors in the district military commanding committee of the Military Region 1
Assess the actual situation properly, clarify the cause and from practice draw initial experience in fostering working capability of political instructors in the district military commanding committee of the Military Region 1
Identify the needs and propose main solutions in fostering working capability of political instructors in the district military commanding committee of the Military Region 1 today
4. Research objects and scope
* Research objects
Foster working capability of political instructors in the district military commanding committee of the Military Region 1
* Research scope
Focus on researching the fostering working capability of political instructors in the district military commanding committee of the Military Region 1
Conduct investigations, surveys, interviews, discussion and referendum for officials, officers in six provinces in the area of Military
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* Theoretical basis
System of principles, basic viewpoints of Marxism Leninism and Ho Chi Minh’s ideology on cadres and personnel issues; the paths, viewpoints and policies of the Party and the State; resolutions and directives of the Central Military Commission, the Ministry of National Defense and the General Political Department on the local military defense work, building the armed forces, building the army in politics, the party’s work, political work and training, fostering officer staff in the Vietnam people's Army
* Practical basis
The whole activities of fostering working capacity of political instructors in the district military commanding committee in 6 provinces under the Military Region 1; comments, evaluation on political instructors and the work of fostering political instructors presented in the documents, the final reports of the competent authorities of Military Region 1 and stats, results of investigation and survey of the author in the military authorities at province and district
* Research method
Based on the methodology of MarxismLeninism and Ho Chi Minh’s ideology, the thesis uses synthetic research methods of interdisciplinary and specialized science; attaches great importance to the methods: system structure, history, logic, analysis, synthesis, comparison, generalization, systematization, surveys, practical summaries and expert methods
6. New contributions of the thesis
Interpret to clarify the characteristics of the political instructors in the district military commanding committee of the Military Region 1; concept, the constituent elements of the working capacity of political instructors in the district military commanding committee in the area of Military Region 1
From practice, draw initial experience in fostering the working capacity of political instructors in the district military commanding committee
of Military Region 1
Propose contents, feasible measures to foster the working capacity of political instructors in the district military commanding committee of Military Region 1 today
7. Theoretical and practical significances of the thesis
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The thesis topic can be used as references, serving scientific research, teaching and learning the party’s work, political work in the local military denfense at the academies and military schools
8. Structure of the thesis
The thesis consists of: an introduction; 3 chapters (6 periods); a conclusion; list of the author’s published scientific works related to the thesis topic; list of references and appendices
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OF POLITICAL INSTRUCTORS IN THE DISTRICT MILITARY COMMANDING COMMITTEE OF MILITARY
REGION 1 TODAY
1. Foregin researches related to the thesis topic
Discussing about the position, role, requirement of the qualities, capabilities; objectives, requirements, contents and measures of building, training and fostering political officers, political commissars, political
instructors, typically there are: "The Party’s leadership over the army of the Soviet Union, Cuba, Germany and North Korea", edited by the Board
of Research and Summation of political work, The People’s Army
Publishing House, Hanoi, 1983; "The party’s work and political work in the Soviet armed forces" and "Brief history of the party’s work and political work in the Soviet armed forces 1918 1973", by A.A.Episep (Editor), The People’s Army Publishing House, Hanoi, 1976; "Textbook
of the party’s work and political work in the Soviet armed forces", by
P.I.CacPenCo (Editor), The People’s Army Publishing House, Hanoi,
1981; "The political work of Chinese People's Liberation Army used in the academies, schools in the new era", by Chuong Tu Nghi (Editor), The
Military Humanities and Social Sciences, the People’s Army
Publishing House, Hanoi, 2007; "Textbook of the Party’s work, political work in the local military local defense", Academy of
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Central Conference Session VIII", Nguyen Van Quyet, Journal of Education on Military Political Theory, No. 51, 1998; "Improve the quality of training political commissars, political instructors to meet the requirements of building the army, national defense in the new era", Le Minh Vu, Journal of Education on Military Political Theory, No. 3, 2008 ; "Place and role of the political commissars, political instructors in the military units in the spirit of Resolution 51 of the Politburo" ,To Xuan Sinh, Journal of Education on Military Political Theory, No.
96, 2006 ; "The experience of building and developing the political commissars, political instructors in the war against America", Pham Xuan Mat, Online Newspaper of the Communist Party of Vietnam, 2009; "Combine the construction of executive committees with building the charing official staff in the army", Ngo Xuan Lich, Tapchiqptd.vn/Sites/print.aspx?newd=1962, 2010;
"Building the strong military official staff in the spirit of the Central Resolution 4 session XI", Luong Cuong, Journal of national defense, No. 5, 2012; "Improving the quality of building official staff in the political department under the infantry division today", Tran Sinh Huy, Journal of Vietnamese Military Arts, No. 1 (125),
2011
2.2. Typical researches on fostering capacity of the Party work, political work and the working capacity of the political cadres, political commissars and political instructors
* Monographs, reference, science topics, textbooks, dissertations, thesis such as: "Foster the capacity of Party work, and political work of political instructor staff in the units of combat training our army today", To Xuan Sinh, Topic at academy level,
Academy of Military Politics, the People’s Army Publishing House,
Hanoi, 2006; "Textbook on the Party work, and political work",
Pham Van Thang, Volume 1, the People’s Army Publishing House,
Hanoi, 2008; "Fostering the capacity to advise on the Party work, and political work of the research official staff of the General Political Department in the current period", Tran Van Hien, the
in political science, Academy of Politics, Hanoi, 2013
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of the Committee, the political commissar of local military authorities," Do Duy Anh, Journal of Political Education military reasoning, No. 6 (136), 2012
2.3 The typical work study staff about local military authorities
* Monographs, reference, entitled "History of Party affairs,
the political work of the armed forces of Military Region 1 (North Vietnam) from 1945 to 2000," 1 Military Region Party Committee, People's Army Publishing House, Hanoi, 2003 ; "Improving the quality of staff committee chaired military commander of the northern mountainous district in the current period," Nguyen Tien Quoc, a doctoral thesis in Political Science, Military Political Academy, Ha Interior, 2003
Some research papers on official staff, political official, political commissars and political instructors of the Military Region 1
"Lang Son boost the construction, improvement of the quality of cadres at grassroots level ", Phung Thanh Kiem, Communist Journal
on basic theme, No. 838, 2012; "Confirm the position, role of political commissars and political instructors after 8 years of implementing Resolution 51 of the Politburo", Nguyen Duc Thuan, Bac Giang Online Newspaper, 2013; "Some solutions for fostering political instructors in the military commanding committee of districts and cities of Bac Ninh province", Ngo Khac Minh, Academy of Military
Politics, the People’s Army Publishing House, Hanoi, 2008;
3. Generalize research results of the published scientific works and issues that the thesis focuses on solving
On a general way, with many different approaches, the typical works of in and outside the country were presented above. These are scientific projects of value, contributing significantly to clarify the rationale and practical basis of fostering the working capacity of political instructors in the district military commanding committee of the Military Region 1
Trang 9 Contribute to generalize, systematize, interpret, analyse to clarify some fundamental issues about the position, role, qualities, competencies, objectives and requirements of building and fostering official staff, political commissars, political instructors; the conception, the role of capacity in the party’s work, political work, working capacity and fostering working capacity for military officer staff; content, forms and requirement in fostering working capacity; the position, role, functions and duties of the district military commanding committee
Having pointed out the inadequacies and limitations in awareness; stages, steps in building and fostering; professional capacity, quality of political officer, political commissars, political instructors in the army; especially at work, some political officials, political commissars, political instructors have poor capacity, not meeting the assigned requirements and tasks in the spirit of Resolution
Inheriting selectively results of the above researches and following the identified targets, the author focuses on studying in the direction of foster working capacity of political instructors in the district military commanding committee of the Military Region 1; interpreting, and generalizing theories, practices of fostering working capacity of political instructors. Based on these collected facts and data, with integrated use of research methods, which are mainly theoretical studies with practical summaries, analysis and synthesis, history, logic, statistics, comparation Based on MarxismLeninism’s viewpoints, Ho Chi Minh’s thought to clarify some following issues:
Interpret to clarify concepts on the working capacity and fostering working capacity of political instructors in the district military commanding committee of Military Region 1
Assess the actual situation, find out the causes and from practice, draw initial experience in fostering working capacity of political instructors in the district military commanding committee of Military Region 1
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Thus, under the political social perspective, research in fostering working capacity and fostering working capacity of political instructors in the district military commanding committee of Military Region 1 today is now an independent study, absolutely not overlapping any announced scientific works, with urgent and longterm theoretical and practical significance
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1.1.1 Political instructors in the district military commanding committee of Military Region 1
1.1.1.1. Overview of the Military Region 1’s situation
To prepare for a prolonged resistance war against the aggression of colonialism and imperialism, on October 16, 1945, President Ho Chi Minh signed a decree to establish 12 War Zones, including Military Region 1
Military Region 1 is a stationed military unit at military region level, functioning in organizing, building, managing and commanding the armed forces of the provinces of Cao Bang, Lang Son, Bac Kan, Thai Nguyen, Bac Ninh, Bac Giang, with 59 districts, cities, towns, 1084 communes, wards and towns. In particular, there are two provinces of Cao Bang, Lang Son, 14 districts and 67 communes bordering China with 564.8
km border, 242 markers (198 main markers, 44 sub markers), 7 border gates (1 international gate, 6 national gates); the Military Region shall have responsibility to coordinate with other local forces to advise the executive committees and administrations in performing the state management of the local defense in implementing the task of local military defense to firmly protect the East North Vietnam. These are areas with special important strategic position in military, politics, economics, socioculture, defense, security and foreign policy in the ball of joint defense of the country
The above situation requires further strengthening and enhancing the construction of national defense security posture, creating a stable political environment for development; in which political instructors have
a very important role in building political – spiritual potential of the army and people in the area, as the basis for firmly protecting the independence, sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity of the motherland. Therefore, promoting the synergy of organizations and forces in the area of Military Region 1 in fostering to improve working capacity of political instructors
in the district military commanding committee of Military Region 1 in par
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in the district military commanding committee of Military Region 1 1.1.1.4. Features of the political instructors in the district military commanding committee of Military Region 1.
Firstly, the political instructors in the district military commanding
committee of Military Region 1 are formed from a variety of sources; but people in the area of Military Region 1 occupy quite big quantity; shall perform the responsibilities and complexity tasks on an area with especially important strategic position in national defense security
Secondly, the political instructors in the district military
commanding committee of Military Region 1 have the variety of hierarchical structure, educational level, military age, age, ethnicity, region And there is uneven in qualifications and working experience
Thirdly, activities of political instructors in the district military
commanding committee of Military Region 1 are under the parallel
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Fourthly, the conditions of work and life, the regime's policies of
political instructors in the district military commanding committee of Military Region 1 today have been improved but still have many difficulties
1.1.2. Working capacity of the political instructors in the district military commanding committee of Military Region 1
1.1.2.1. Conception on the working capacity of the political instructors
in the district military commanding committee of Military Region 1.
From analysing the working capacity of the political instructors in the district military commanding committee, the thesis introduces the conception that working capacity of the political instructors in the district military commanding committee of Military Region 1 is the crystallized value of elements making up the qualifications and actual ability of each person and the whole political instructors in the district military commanding committee to ensure that they can fulfill the assigned responsibilities and tasks
1.1.2.2. Elements and categorize the working capacity of political instructors in the district military commanding committee of Military Region 1.
* Elements of the working capacity of political instructors in the district military commanding committee of Military Region 1.
Approach under psychological science perspective, working capacity is constituted by factors such as: knowledge, techniques and skills (connote biological and social factors, internal factors: gift – nature quality and external factors: knowledge, techniques, skills, and environment)
Approach working capacity under the science of building the Party, party’s work, political work in the army, working capacity includes: Ability to conduct ideological work, capacity to undertake the work of the organization; according to the authorities and task, there are capacity to advise, propose; capacity to direct, organize for conducting the party’s work, political work; commanding, managing capacity and capacity to participate in committees, authorities, departments, political – social organizations at the locality
* Categorize the working capacity of political instructors in the district military commanding committee of Military Region 1 to include:
Firstly, according to the operating types at military commanding
committee, district armed forces, working capacity of political instructors includes such basic groups: Capacity to advise and propose; capacity to direct, organize and conduct the party’s work, political work; capacity to guide, check;
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Secondly, according to the types of activity in committees, authorities,
agencies, departments, politicalsocial organizations at the locality, the working capacity of political instructors includes: Capacity to participate in assemblies, steering board, organizations and associations such as the People's Council, People's Committee; Military Education Council; Fatherland Front at local level; Emulation and Reward Council of the locality; Steering Committee for the fight against corruption, wastefulness and thrift practice in the locality
1.1.2.3. Role of the working capacity of political instructors in the district military commanding committee of Military Region 1
Firstly, working capacity is one of the basic elements determining the
working quality and effectiveness of the political instructors in the district military commanding committee
Secondly, working capacity is a fundamental factor to create the value,
quality of the political instructors, contributes to building and completing the personality of political instructors in the district military commanding committee of Military Region 1
Thirdly, working capacity of political instructors in the district military
commanding committee contributes an important part in building the military commanding committee and the district armed forces to be strong to perform the tasks of local military defense in the Military Region 1
1.1.2.4. The path of forming, developing and improving the working capacity of political instructors in the district military commanding committee
of Military Region 1.
Firstly, the working capacity of political instructors in the district military
commanding committee of Military Region 1 was formed and created in the process of education and training at the school
Secondly, the working capacity of political instructors in the district
military commanding committee of Military Region 1 is further supplemented and developed for improvement in practices
Thirdly, the working capacity of political instructors in the district
military commanding committee of Military Region 1 is completed through selflearning, selfdiscipline and selffostering by each political instructor.1.2. Basic issues in fostering the working capacity of political instructors in the district military commanding committee of Military Region 1
1.2.1. Conception in fostering the working capacity of political instructors
in the district military commanding committee of Military Region 1
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of Military Region 1 is the overall operation of the subject and forces impacting
on the cognitive, behavior of each person and team to extend, consolidate, supplement and develop knowledge; experience and operational skills contribute to make political instructors in the district military commanding committee qualified and capable to fulfill the responsibilities and tasks assigned.
The above conception indicates that:
Objective of fostering aim at making political instructors constantly
expand, consolidate, supplement, and develop scientific knowledge, accumulate experience, train the methods, style, improve skills to meet the working requirements; ensuring that each individual and political instructors to be qualified and capable to fulfill the responsibilities and tasks assigned, contribute
to improving the quality of the party’s work, political work, develop the strong military commanding committee and the district armed forces
The subject of fostering, the party organization, the officials in charge,
political institutions at all levels in Military Region 1 directly lead, direct, manage, and organize to conduct, guide, and coordinate synergistically the implementation of fostering activities under the regime that the Party leads the local military defense and regulation on officer working in the Vietnam People's Army. Specifically:
Party committee, the High Command of Military Region 1, exectutive committees, local governments of provinces, districts and provincial, district military Party committee agree on the leadership and direction of fostering the working capacity of political instructors in the district military commanding committee pursuant to the determined responsibilities, powers and scope.Party committee, the officials in charge of the provincial military commanding department, district military commanding committee directly hold the leadership, direction and management of fostering the working capacity of political instructors in the district military commanding committee in the province
Political authorities at all levels in Military Region 1, in which the political department under the provincial military commanding department is the institution which directly advises, proposes and is central to conduct and coordinate synergistically to build and implement plans, programs of fostering