In 2019, a delegation of the Vietnamese army visited Russia. After the Vietnamese delegation arrived in Russia, they were warmly welcomed by Russia, and at the same time arranged for them to carry out a series of visits, but a ** made this visit a bit of a child's play.
* A group of Vietnamese officers lined up to visit a Russian military base, and the Vietnamese stood loosely and looked like they had no military spirit at all. Among them, there is a female officer with her head held high, who is quite chic and arrogant, and she is even carrying a valuable LV bag.
If you buy this LV bag with your salary, you don't know if it will take decades to buy it, but in her opinion, it seems to be as ordinary as an ordinary handbag. This actually reflects a very serious problem in Vietnam, which is that the corruption of the Vietnamese military seems to have surpassed the vast majority of countries in the world.
In Vietnam, being a soldier is undoubtedly quite honorable. The glory mentioned here is not to protect the family and defend the country, but to treat being a soldier as a business, as long as you can be admitted to the military academy in Vietnam, it is the real glory of the ancestors.
All the Vietnamese officers live in luxury houses, drive luxury cars, have golf courses in the barracks, do business well, and talk and laugh with business tycoons from all walks of life.
Therefore, in Vietnam, the common people seem to like to call them arms dealers. International military analysis even says that the Vietnamese army is mired in collapse and corruption and is hopeless.
This can't help but make us wonder how Vietnam, as a socialist country, managed its military to become what it is nowIs it true that the Vietnamese army has no chance of saving it at all?
In fact, this may be the case, because if you want to save the current Vietnamese army, it will take considerable effort from the Vietnamese ** to change the situation with the determination of a strong man who almost breaks his wrist. But it is clear that Vietnam does not have that kind of courage at all.
To ask how the Vietnamese army came to be what it is now, we must start with the real modernization of the Vietnamese army. Although Vietnam has fought many wars in the last century, if it really has any combat effectiveness, then it is pure nonsense.
In the 90s, Vietnam made enemies everywhere, fought a 10-year war with China in the north, and launched a military intervention in Cambodia and Laos in the south for more than a decade.
Obviously, they have reached the verge of provoking a popular uprising, and Vietnam finally realized that they must reform, and if they don't reform, they may not be able to keep it. To this end, Vietnam stopped military intervention in Cambodia and Laos, negotiated peace with China, and eased relations, and then began to shift the focus of national construction to development.
Seeing that China has gained unprecedented vitality as a result of reform and opening up, Vietnam has also decided to follow suit. They soon developed a policy called Innovation and Openness, and they knew who their teachers were.
In the process of reform and opening up, Vietnam is also ready to build a new Vietnamese People's Army. But this new brand sounds like a black humor in Vietnam.
In the process of reform, in order to better save money, Vietnam began to reduce the size of its troops. After all, it is a small country that has always maintained a fairly large army, which is a considerable disadvantage for economic development.
As a result, Viet Nam began large-scale disarmament in the late 80s, with 50 per cent direct disarmament by 1988. By 1997, there were 700,000 active military officers in Vietnam, which is still very inflated, but compared with 1.26 million in 1988, it is almost 1.20 less.
At the same time, in order to increase the level of modernization of the troops, the budget for military equipment in Vietnam began to increase. 1992 was the most critical year for Vietnam. In the same year, the Vietnam Council and the National Assembly of Vietnam jointly signed a resolution to increase defense spending.
In 1994, Vietnam's military spending increased by 50 percent, peaking at 1.5 billion in 2004. Therefore, the Vietnamese army began to be further strengthened.
But although Congress approved the purchase of more advanced equipment, the money from ** has become a big problem. Vietnam's National Assembly only approved that they could buy equipment and increase military spending, but it did not indicate that it would pay for it. As a result, a very embarrassing problem arose, the Vietnamese army had to pay for these equipment out of its own pocket.
The answer given by the Vietnamese National Assembly is yes, and the Vietnamese army can do business and make money on its own. Subsequently, various groups controlled by the Vietnamese army sprang up, which eventually led to the collapse of the Vietnamese army. During that visit, the Vietnamese Navy also conducted joint military Xi with the Russian Navy.
A Vietnamese Cheetah-class frigate conducting a live-fire Xi exercise at the Russian military port of Vladivostok caught the attention of everyone present because the soldier swaggered by the fence with a pair of designer leather shoes on his feet. In such a difficult combat environment at sea, it is inexplicable to wear leather shoes, which makes many people feel inexplicable.
What will become of a country's army if an ordinary soldier completely ignores the internal regulations?Perhaps it can be guessed from Vietnam's GDP that Vietnam's total GDP in 2019 is about 300 billion US dollars, and the output value of the army is as high as 30 billion, that is, 10% of the country's total economy comes from the Vietnamese army. Why is this so?The answer lies in allowing the military to do business.
We all know that Vietnam is a small country, and in the past, it has been adopting a planned economy and reforming and opening up, and suddenly brought a market economy to Vietnam, what is the consequence?The answer is that the sudden market economy will certainly give some former politicians more resources, and this situation is in the hands of the military.
The military is inherently a violent organ of the state, and any other company that competes with a violent organ will inevitably fail. As a result, Vietnam controlled many companies through military means, which in turn channeled wealth into the Vietnamese army. Taking the most famous 128*** as an example, we can see how terrifying the Vietnamese army's wealth collection is.
Vietnam 128*** is a comprehensive enterprise with a business scope covering various fields. For example, all the soy sauce and fish sauce you can see now are made by 128 Company.
In petroleum and metallurgy, we can also see the logo of this company, in fact, this company has set up a monopoly network in Vietnam, and it can be seen from the name of its numerical number that this company must be inextricably linked to the military.
The actual operator of the 128 company is indeed the Vietnamese Navy, which used to be called the Vietnamese Navy's 128 No. 5 Middle School Fishing Team, which was originally only responsible for salvaging seafood, but when this team stepped into the business world, it immediately used the influence of the army to make money.
We can see some clues from the personnel structure of this company, because the chairman is even a colonel of the Vietnamese Navy. But the problem is that 128*** is not isolated in Vietnam, and there are industries from the Vietnamese army in almost every aspect, for example, Vietnam's largest telecommunications company comes from the Vietnamese Army, and the largest civil aviation company comes from the Vietnamese Air Force.
It is precisely because of this that the Vietnamese army is making more and more money, and they are not satisfied with just spending the money on buying equipment, after all, they have money, so how about enjoying it a little?Then came large-scale corruption, from which all sorts of officers and soldiers profited, especially after disarmament, when everyone got a bigger share. As a result, corruption in the Vietnamese army began to prevail, which eventually led to structural corruption in the form of collapse.
In the last century, China also allowed the troops to do business, but it soon became clear that the seriousness of this problem was greatly weakened, and the troops' economic chambers of commerce greatly weakened the combat effectiveness of the troops.
So we stopped the military business and took back the army's industry, which also made the Chinese People's Liberation Army one of the most powerful armies in the Asia-Pacific region.
However, after tasting the sweetness of doing business, the Vietnamese army fell into it and could not extricate itself, and in the end, the Vietnamese People's Army collapsed and became corrupt, and its combat effectiveness plummeted.
Vietnam always says that it wants to reform, but it does not have the courage to do so every time. There is an old Chinese saying that a thousand-mile embankment collapses in an anthill, and now this anthill in Vietnam is big enough.
Many Vietnamese people will always ask the question, where will the Vietnamese army go?But perhaps they are the only ones who can give them this answer.