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1 INTRODUCTION Rationale for the study Discipline is one of the fundamental factors making up the army's fighting power Improving the quality of educating military discipline is an indispensable issue of regularity in the cause of building and promoting the army's fighting strength Noncommissioned officers and soldiers at the grassroots units are a large force, directly fulfilling training tasks, fighting readiness and the Fatherland protection The quality of disciplinary education for noncommissioned officers and soldiers at grassroots units plays a role of great significance, directly shaping their discipline and observance acts; reduce the rate of disciplinary violations at grassroots units; contribute to improving the quality of non-commissioned officers and soldiers’ political thought, ethics and lifestyle In recent years, the quality of disciplinary education for noncommissioned officers, soldiers and observance of discipline has been greatly improved with significant achievements thanks to the attention, leadership and direction of the party committees, party organizations and commanders at all levels At present, due to the impact of the fourth industrial revolution taking place more and more powerful; economic globalization and deeper and deeper international integration; the resistance of hostile forces to "politicize the army"; negative impacts of market economy on the contrary; complex developments in the situation of the world, the region and the country; request military missions in the new situation; the situation of management, education, training and observance of discipline of non-commissioned officers and soldiers at the grassroots units in our Army is still weak and inadequate Thus, improving the quality of disciplinary education for military personnel in general, for non-commissioned officers and soldiers at grassroots units in particular is considered as one of the fundamental, essential and urgent tasks, contributing to the successful implementation of the Party's policy: to build a revolutionary, regular and elite Vietnam People's Army, to step by step modernize, prioritize the modernization of several different forces However, there are certain shortcomings and weaknesses in response to the requirements of the practice of military construction, building a strong and comprehensive base unit, in improving the quality of disciplinary education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers such as: some educational subjects’ awareness, responsibility and capacity on this issue are inadequate; some contents, forms and methods of disciplinary education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers are not appropriate and effective; some non-commissioned officers and soldiers’ awareness, attitude, motivation and selfdiscipline are not guaranteed Notably, one of the current disturbing issues is the increase in the seriousness of negative phenomena, lawbreaking cases and the discipline of non-commissioned officers and soldiers such as suicide; robbery, murder; rape; lot lottery and gambling; install debt signing, loan sharking, etc All of these issues require the urgent need to improve the quality of educating discipline for non-commissioned officers and soldiers at local units Therefore, the author decides to select the topic: "Improving the quality of disciplinary education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers at local units of the Vietnam People's Army today" as his doctoral thesis Purposes and tasks of the study Purposes Clarifying some theoretical, practical issues and proposing basic solutions to improving the quality of disciplinary education for noncommissioned officers and soldiers at the local units of the Vietnam People's Army today Tasks Giving an overview of the thesis-related research situation Clarifying the nature and the factors deciding the quality of disciplinary education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers at the local units of the Vietnam People's Army Assessing the current situation and clarifying the issues to improve the quality of disciplinary education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers at the local units of the Vietnam People's Army today Proposing some basic solutions to improving the quality of disciplinary education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers at the local units of the Vietnam People's Army today Object and scope of the study Object The issue of improving the quality of disciplinary education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers at local units of the infantry divisions of the Vietnam People's Army Scope In terms of content: The thesis focuses on studying theoretical and practical issues on improving the quality of disciplinary education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers at local units of infantry divisions in the northern region of the Vietnam People's Army In terms of scope: The thesis’s participants are officers, noncommissioned officers and soldiers in a number of ground-based infantry units in the North Specifically, the infantry regiments were full of troops: Division 3, Military Region 1; Division 316, Military Region 2; Division 395, Military Region 3; 312 Division, 1st Corps; Division 325, Corps 2; 301 Division, Hanoi High Command In terms of time: From 2010 to the present Theoretical, practical basis and methodology Theoretical basis The system of Marxism-Leninism’s views, Ho Chi Minh ideology, and the Communist Party's viewpoints on military construction in general, discipline of the Army in particular; command system, military regulations and the thesis-related research results Practical basis The summary document, statistics of agencies and units of the combined army in the Vietnam People's Army; results of surveys and actual surveys of the author on the situation of improving the quality of disciplinary education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers of a number of infantry base units with enough troops in military zones and regional legions current north and figures in the th and the 9th Congress of Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union Methodology Methodology of dialectical materialism and historical materialism, with some specific research methods are used such as generalization, abstraction, history and logic; systems and structures; analysis and synthesis; statistics, comparisons, the method of using experts, sociological surveys, etc These methods are used synchronously and flexibly, appropriate to each chapter and content of the thesis New contributions of the study The thesis clarifies the concept of improving the quality of disciplinary education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers at local units of the Vietnam People's Army and the nature of this issue The thesis generalizes and explains the factors regulating the quality of disciplinary education for non-commissioned officers at local units of the Vietnam People's Army The thesis assesses the current situation and identifies the issues of improving the quality of disciplinary education for noncommissioned officers and soldiers at local units of the Vietnam People's Army today The thesis proposes basic solutions to improving the quality of disciplinary education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers at local units of the Vietnam People's Army today Theoretical and practical significance of the study Theoretical significance: The results of the study contribute to providing scientific arguments on improving the quality of disciplinary education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers at local units of the Vietnam People's Army today Practical significance: The thesis can be used as references in researching, teaching, educating and discipline training for noncommissioned officers and soldiers at local units of the Vietnam People's Army and at military schools The structure of the study The thesis includes: Introduction, chapters (10 periods), conclusion, a list of the thesis-related works, a list of references and appendices Chapter OVERVIEW OF THE THESIS-RELATED RESEARCH SITUATION 1.1 Typical scientific works related to the thesis 1.1.1 Typical scientific works related to the concept of discipline and military discipline Typically: "Educating discipline for Soviet Soldiers" by V V Culacop; "About defining the concept of "military self-discipline" by I N Vonkop; "Promoting self-discipline of the Vietnamese People's Army’s soldiers today" by Nguyen Van Tuan; "Some theoretical and practical issues about military discipline" by Nguyen Ngoc Phu; "Resolving the relationship between democracy and discipline to promote the role of the contingent of cadres in the construction of our army today" by Nguyen Van Tai; "The relationship between promoting socialist democracy and strengthening discipline in the Vietnamese people's army today" by Nguyen Van Thanh; "Ho Chi Minh's ideology on discipline of the revolutionary army" by Nguyen Manh Huong; "The system of disciplined educational measures for cultural and artistic students in the army" by Pham Dinh Hoe; "Some basic solutions to preventing and overcoming serious violations of discipline in the army" by author Mai Van Ly; "Strict discipline in the grassroots party organization unit training, ready to fight in the army today" by Tran Ba Thanh; "Developing a culture of discipline for soldiers at local units in the army today" by Dao Huy Hiep; "Causes of disciplinary violations in non-commissioned officers and soldiers from the viewpoint of military psychology" by Pham Dinh Duyen; "Strengthening military discipline to fulfil all tasks" by author Nguyen Van Nuoi; "Causes and solutions for preventing and overcoming the phenomenon of serious disciplinary violations in the army today" by To Xuan Sinh, etc By different ways of approaching, the authors give the concept of discipline and military discipline, confirming the position and the very important role of discipline in the existence and development of the army These serve as vital foundations for this thesis 1.1.2 Typical scientific works related to discipline education and military discipline education Here are typical works: "On discussing discipline in revolutionary army" by many authors; "Education in practice" by Makarenco; "Analysing the contradictions in the process of consolidating and strengthening the discipline of the Vietnam People's Army today" by Nguyen Thanh Long; "The general use of methods of educating disciplinary behaviour habits for officers' officers at military universities" by Pham Minh Thu; "Applying Ho Chi Minh's thought on military discipline to education and disciplining soldiers" by Ngo Van Quynh; "Continuing to educate law and military discipline for soldiers according to Ho Chi Minh ideology" by Trinh Minh Son; "Researching the process of organizing discipline education for students in military schools" by Vu Quang Hai; "Combining education, practicing morality and discipline in the Vietnam People's Army" [137] by the Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities, Ministry of Defense; "Strengthening education and discipline management in the army" by Pham Hong Huong; "Strengthening the education, discipline management and safety assurance of military forces" by Truong Minh Khai, etc by different ways of approaching, these works have discussed and clarified many issues about discipline education and military discipline education This is a valuable resource for the author to deepen his thesis 1.1.3 Typical scientific works related to improving the quality of educating discipline in the military Typically: "Improving the quality of legal education for noncommissioned soldiers in the current infantry division" by Nguyen Trong Linh; "Improving the quality of management, education and discipline of non-commissioned officers and soldiers at the current Military Political Academy" by Le Quang Tha; "The psychological basis of consolidating and improving the discipline of military agents of special agents" by Dinh Hung Tuan; "Improving the quality of education, management and discipline training in units in the army of Tang and Armour" by Pham Dinh Dung; "Improving the quality of legal dissemination and education in the army" by Nguyen Xuan Thu; "Measures to improve the quality of disciplinary awareness education for young enlisted young people at local units" by Bui Dang Doan and Nguyen Dang Loi; "Strengthening discipline, discipline, improving the strength of the army, meeting mission requirements" by Phan Van Giang, etc The above-mentioned scientific works have discussed many issues and many aspects of improving the quality of discipline education of subjects in the army From the perspective of research, these authors have introduced the concepts of improving discipline education; point out the factors affecting the process of improving the quality of disciplinary education, and propose solutions to improve the quality of disciplinary education This serves as an important premise for the author to selectively inherit in his thesis 1.2 Overview of the results of the published scientific works and the issues need further addressing in this thesis 1.2.1 Overview of the of the results of the published scientific works First, the scientific works have mentioned, interpreted and introduced the concepts of discipline and military discipline; discipline education; improve the quality of disciplined education of soldiers both at home and abroad with different approaches and research methods In terms of approach and method, the authors affirmed the great role of discipline, the discipline education work in perfecting personality, developing people in general and developing quality, morality and personality of revolutionary soldiers in particular Second, the scientific works have confirmed the existence of discipline in all organizations in general and in the Vietnam People's Army in particular They have affirmed the position, the great and irreplaceable role of discipline in the fighting strength of the Vietnam People's Army They also clarified the difference in the nature of socialist military discipline and bourgeois military discipline; affirming the superiority of the discipline of the revolutionary army with the nature of "self-discipline and strictness"; affirming the need to maintain and develop "self-discipline and strict" discipline in the Vietnam People's Army Third, the scientific works have analysed and clarified the factors that positively and negatively affect the education, training and observance of military discipline, pointing out the advantages, limitations and shortcomings in the military education, training as well as indicate requirements and basic solutions to promoting discipline in the Vietnam People's Army today Fourth, the scientific works have clarified the significance and the necessity to maintain, consolidate, strengthen, promote and improve the quality of educating discipline in the Vietnam People's Army in the current period 1.2.2 The issues need further addressing in this thesis In terms of theory, the thesis needs to clarify the nature and the regulatory factors to improve the quality of disciplinary education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers at grassroots People's Army units This is an important theoretical basis for PhD students to assess the situation and propose solutions to improve the quality of disciplinary education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers at the Army’s local units in today In terms of practice, the thesis needs to use a combination of different methods and methods, in which the main use is to summarize practical methods, sociological investigation, analysis and forecast to comprehensively assess the situation, draw out the pros and cons and point out the problems raised in improving the quality of disciplinary education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers at local units in the Vietnam People's Army today In terms of solution, based on theoretical and practical issues, the thesis needs to propose practical and effective solutions to improving the quality of disciplinary education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers at local units in the Vietnam People's Army today Conclusion of chapter By giving an overview of the thesis-related research situation, the author identifies the issues that need further addressing regarding three fields: theory, current situation and solution to improving the quality of educating discipline for non-commissioned officers and soldiers at local units in the Vietnam People's Army today Chapter SOME THEORETICAL ISSUES ON IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF EDUCATING DISCIPLINE FOR NONCOMMISSIONED OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS AT LOCAL UNITS OF THE VIETNAM PEOPLE’S ARMY 2.1 The reality of improving the quality of discipline education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers at local units of the Vietnam People's Army 2.1.1 The concept of discipline education and the quality of discipline education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers at local units of the Vietnam People's Army * The concept of disciplinary education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers at local units of the Vietnam People's Army The Vietnam People's Army’s discipline is defined as a comprehensive set of laws and regulations that force every soldier to strictly abide by the basis of the revolutionary ideal of awareness and enlightenment to create a high unity in action, to ensure the Army to promote its strength, to fulfil its functions and tasks in every condition, circumstance and situation Non-commissioned officers and soldiers at local units of the Vietnam People's Army are active-service men who carry ranks ranging from private soldiers to sergeants, holding positions up to deputy platoons and the equivalent, exercising their military service at regimental-level units or the equivalent in the entire military Accordingly, the thesis states that: Discipline education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers at local units of the Vietnam People's Army is a purposeful, well-organized, scientific process of employers to systematically communicate the laws of the State, the discipline of the army, the regulations of the units, the instructions and orders of the commander to noncommissioned officers and soldiers, which aims at formulating the capacity discipline and observance, ensuring that they fulfil their duties and tasks assigned in every situation The conceptual connotation is shown in the following points: The purpose of discipline education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers are: to equip the basic knowledge of the Constitution, the laws of the State, the commandments, rules and regulations of the army, the instructions and the orders of the commander and the unit's regulations for non-commissioned officers and soldiers On that basis, it aims at raising non-commissioned officers and soldiers’ awareness, developing a sense of discipline observance and forming a habit of voluntary observing discipline of the army The subjects of discipline education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers are: committees, commanders, agencies and organizations, together with the contingent of officials at the grassroots units Of which, the most direct subjects are the team of platoon leaders, platoon officials, party committees, Party cells, commander of the company, party committee, battalion commander Noncommissioned officers and soldiers are the self-discipline subjects The objects of discipline education are non-commissioned officers and soldiers at local units Non-commissioned officers and soldiers are both the subjects and the objects of discipline education The harmony between the role of being both the objects and the subjects of education of non-commissioned officers and soldiers is dialectically combined This role mobilizes frequently, in which the role of the educational subject increases when the awareness of non-commissioned officers and soldiers’ discipline and self-discipline is promoted The content of discipline education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers at local units shall comply with regulations and guidance of the General Staff Department and the General 10 Department of Politics, with comprehensive contents, both theory and practice, with the motto: "Basic, practical, solid" * The concept of discipline education quality for non-commissioned officers and soldiers at local units of the Vietnam People's Army The thesis indicates: The quality of discipline education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers at local units of the Vietnam People's Army is the organic unity of the quality of the constituent elements (and participation) of a system, reflecting the role of this process in the change of non-commissioned officers and soldiers’ consciousness and discipline behaviour at different historical phases The quality of discipline education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers at local units is made up by: First, the quality of disciplinary subjects for non-commissioned officers and soldiers: party committee, party organizations; organization of command; organizing Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union; other organizations at the grassroots unit (Council of soldiers, trade unions, women, etc.); the units’ staff Second, the quality of content, form and method of disciplinary education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers Third, the quality of conditions to ensure discipline education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers Fourth, the quality of the value system constitutes among the factors aimed at transforming non-commissioned officers and soldiers’ discipline awareness This factor directly regulating the quality of noncommissioned officers and soldiers’ disciplinary education 2.1.2 The concept of improving the quality of discipline education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers at local units of the Vietnam People's Army The thesis defines: Improving the quality of disciplinary education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers at local units of the Vietnam People's Army is the process of lawful impacts of entities that transform the structural elements, getting more qualitatively developed, creating a change in non-commissioned officers and soldiers’ discipline observance from spontaneous to selfawareness in certain historical phases The conceptual connotation is shown in the following points: 12 Fourth, improving the quality of disciplinary education for noncommissioned officers and soldiers at grassroots units is specified through a relatively stable criteria system associated with the requirements of building unit units in each phase The first criterion is that the subjects have right perception, high responsibility, active and creative actions in improving the quality of disciplinary education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers at local units The second criterion in that the contents, forms and methods of disciplinary education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers at grassroots units ensure scientific sense, suitability and diversity The third criterion in that the assurance conditions for improving the quality of disciplinary education for noncommissioned officers and soldiers at grassroots units are increasingly full in number and of good quality The fourth criterion is that non-commissioned officers and soldiers’ awareness and disciplined behaviour have changed from spontaneous, forced, administrative orders to voluntary and self-conscious 2.2 The factors regulating the quality improvement of discipline education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers at local units of the Vietnam People's Army 2.2.1 The harmony of the subjects’ awareness, responsibility and method of organizing practical discipline educational activities The harmony between the subjects in improving the quality of disciplinary education is the agreement and consensus on awareness and actions, coordinating in the direction of education to raise awareness and discipline of non-commissioned officers and soldiers Of which, unification of the awareness, responsibility and method of organizing disciplined educational practice activities of: Party committees and commanders of all levels regulate the correctness and science of direction, goals and content , forms and measures to improve the quality of disciplinary education for noncommissioned officers and soldiers; of functional agencies prescribing the effectiveness and feasibility of advising, elaborating and coordinating the implementation of contents, plans, measures and conditions to ensure the quality improvement of disciplinary education for lower education officers and soldiers; of the Union organization and other organizations in the unit play an important 13 role in improving the quality of disciplinary education for noncommissioned officers and soldiers; of non-commissioned officers and soldiers directly decides the quality improvement of their discipline education 2.2.2 The appropriateness (or inappropriateness) of the content, form and method of disciplinary education The content, form and method of disciplinary education are one of the basic factors that constitute the quality of disciplinary education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers Therefore, the appropriateness (or inappropriateness) of the content, form and method of disciplinary education is one of the basic factors determining the effectiveness of improving the quality of non-commissioned officers and soldiers’ disciplinary education Specifically: The content of discipline education is comprehensively implemented, with focus and focus, regularly updated, updated and supplemented in accordance with the characteristics of non-commissioned officers, soldiers and units’ regulations on improving the quality of non-commissioned officers and soldiers’ disciplinary education The appropriateness (or inappropriateness) of disciplinary education forms and methods stipulates the effectiveness of consolidating and raising the level and knowledge to form habits and acts of obeying the State's laws and the units regulations The consistency between the content and the form and method of education prescribes the effectiveness of sustainability to improve the quality of discipline education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers at local units 2.2.3 The discipline environment at local units regulating the improvement of the quality of non-commissioned officers and soldiers’ disciplinary education The discipline environment at local units is a place where noncommissioned officers and soldiers are equipped with disciplinary knowledge, reinforce and develop feelings, beliefs and wills to abide by discipline The disciplinary environment at the grassroots unit is made up of basic elements such as the disciplinary value system, social organizational institutions and facilities In which: Positive and healthy discipline system stipulates contents to improve the quality of discipline education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers; a system of disciplinary institutions and infrastructure facilities was 14 developed to complete the regulations on the effectiveness of leadership, direction and participation of subjects and conditions to ensure the improvement of education quality for non-commissioned officers and soldiers at local units 2.2.4 The subjective factors of non-commissioned officers and soldiers at local units The subjective factor of non-commissioned officers and soldiers is a combination of elements that make up the quality and capacity of non-commissioned officers and soldiers to create a positive, self-conscious, active and creative characteristic in practical activities The subjective factor constituted not only the elements of consciousness and morale of non-commissioned officers and soldiers, but also material elements of themselves Each element constituting the personality of non-commissioned officers and soldiers has a certain defined role to the result of improving the quality of disciplinary education for them Of which: comprehensive knowledge, especially the knowledge of discipline of non-commissioned officers and soldiers, which stipulates the results of disciplining knowledge, is the basis for forming the quality and capacity to observe discipline; Sentiments, beliefs and wills for observance of discipline stipulate the results of transforming the objective of improving the quality of objective discipline education into the subjective needs of noncommissioned officers and soldiers; Practical capacity of noncommissioned officers and soldiers stipulates the results of improving the quality of their discipline education Conclusion of chapter 15 Improving the quality of disciplinary education for noncommissioned officers and soldiers at local units is a process of reasonable impact of the subjects to transform the constituents towards an increasingly higher quality development, create a change in non-commissioned officers and soldiers’ awareness and discipline from spontaneous to self-awareness, meeting the requirements of responsibilities and duties in building a strong and comprehensive unit Improving the quality of disciplinary education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers at local units is regulated by several factors Of which, the subjective factor of non-commissioned officers and soldiers is the most important one, deciding the quality of disciplinary education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers at local units 16 Chapter THE CURRENT SITUATION AND ISSUES RAISED IN IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF DISCIPLINE EDUCATION FOR NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS AND SOLDOERS AT LOCAL UNITS OF THE VIETNAM PEOPLE’S ARMY TODAY 3.1 The current situation and its causes in improving the quality of discipline education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers at local units of the Vietnam People's Army today 3.1.1 The current situation of improving the quality of discipline education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers at local units of the Vietnam People's Army today First, the current situation of the subjects’ awareness, responsibility and practice of discipline education in improving the quality of discipline education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers at local units Party committees, commanders, officials at all levels, functional agencies, organizations at grassroots units have had an increasingly accurate and profound change of awareness, are highly responsible and active However, in certain periods, there are still a few subjects who are not fully aware of the role, not fully promoting their responsibilities and capacities in improving the quality of discipline education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers Second, the current situation of improving the quality of content, forms and methods of discipline education for noncommissioned officers and soldiers at the local units today The quality of content, form and method of disciplinary education in general have many positive changes, bringing practical effects to improve the quality of disciplinary education for noncommissioned officers and soldiers However, some disciplined content for non-commissioned officers and soldiers is not high quality, inappropriate, practical, still scattered, lacking in focus The concretizing content of disciplinary education to suit the characteristics and tasks of the unit and the awareness of noncommissioned officers and soldiers in some units is limited Discipline education forms and methods are not very flexible, not close to the contents, characteristics and tasks of the units, incompatible with the perception of non-commissioned officers and soldiers and partly isolated from the reality 17 Third, the current situation of discipline environment in improving the quality of discipline education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers at local units The discipline environment at grassroots units has been built more and more fully, comprehensively and constantly improved to suit the movement and change of each unit's practice The system of disciplinary institutions, disciplinary relationships and facilities is built relatively comprehensive, easy to understand, implement and create affection and confidence for non-commissioned officers and soldiers However, the discipline environment at grassroots units still has some limitations: The specification of some disciplinary values at the grassroots unit is not comprehensive, with unclear content, causing difficulties and constraints in the reception and implementation process Some institutions of leadership and discipline of the disciplinary environment in some units have not been developed, fully consolidated and ineffective, especially when there are personnel fluctuations Several organizations show signs of not yet performing their functions and tasks towards improving the quality of discipline education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers The institutional system of facilities at local units has some points which are not guaranteed regarding the quantity, quality and efficiency Fourth, the current situation of knowledge transformation, emotions, beliefs, habits and deeds of officers and soldiers at local units The knowledge, affection and beliefs of non-commissioned officers and soldiers about the laws of the State, the discipline of the army, the regulations of the unit are increasingly full, comprehensive and constantly improved Non-commissioned officers and soldiers increasingly understand the nature and apply relatively well that knowledge to solve problems in the discipline-observing practice at the grassroots units The observance of discipline by noncommissioned officers and soldiers has been increasingly serious and thorough, initially creating trust and forming the habit of self-discipline and observance Besides, there are still some limitations: The knowledge of some non-commissioned officers and soldiers about military discipline, the regulations of the unit are incomplete, not comprehensive, insightful, just limited to nature intuitive, experienced; Sentiments, beliefs and wills to abide by the discipline and regulations of a number of non-commissioned officers and soldiers 18 are not high and yet solid; The act of observing the discipline of the army, the regulations of the units of a number of non-commissioned officers and soldiers is not serious and not self-conscious 3.1.2 The causes of the current situation of improving the quality of discipline education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers at local units of the Vietnam People's Army Firstly, the causes of the achievements The achievements of the country's comprehensive renovation have created favourable conditions to improve the quality of discipline education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers at local units It gets the attention of the Party Committees’ leadership at all levels to improve the quality of discipline education for noncommissioned officers and soldiers at local units There remains the participation and coordination of functional agencies and organizations at local units in improving the quality of discipline education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers The quality of the young enlisted has been increasingly improved Secondly, the causes of shortcomings There has not been a high consensus on awareness, responsibility and practical activities among the subjects to improve the quality of discipline education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers at local units The innovation of content, form and method of disciplinary education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers at local units is not in accordance with the change and development of reality The discipline environment at local units has not been built and promoted for improving the quality of discipline education for noncommissioned officers and soldiers The ability of non-commissioned officers and soldiers to improve their self-discipline is still inadequate 3.2 The issues raised in improving the quality of discipline education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers at local units of the Vietnam People's Army today 3.2.1 The conflict between the high requirement of the subjects’ awareness, responsibilities, practical activities with inconsistency in the subjects’ awareness, responsibility and practical activities in discipline education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers at local units today 19 3.2.2 The conflict between the requirements for renovation and completion of discipline education content, form and method with outdated, slow innovation, asynchronous content, form and method of discipline education in improving the quality of discipline education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers at local units today 3.2.3 The conflict between the requirement to create a disciplined, positive and healthy environment with the fact that the discipline environment is not positive and healthy, there are several limitations in improving the quality of discipline education for noncommissioned officers and soldiers at local units today 3.2.4 The conflict between the requirements to promote highly subjective factors of non-commissioned officers and soldiers and the limitations of non-commissioned officers and soldiers’ awareness, attitude, motivation and behaviour Conclusion of chapter The current situation of improving the quality of discipline education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers at local units is assessed by the defined specific criteria, thereby pointing out the achievements, shortcomings and their causes The theoretical and practical basis show that there are some contradictions in improving the quality of discipline education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers at local units, seen as the issues raised in improving the quality of discipline education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers at local units which need further dealing with in this thesis Chapter THE BASIC SOLUTIONS TO IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF DISCIPLINE EDUCATION FOR NONCOMMISSIONED OFFICERS ANS SOLDIERS AT LOCAL UNITS OF THE VIETNAME PEOPLE’S ARMY TODAY 4.1 Creating the unity in the subjects’ awareness, responsibility and practice of discipline education in improving the quality of discipline education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers at local units today 4.1.1 Creating the unity on awareness, responsibility and practice of discipline education of the committees, commanders 20 and cadres at all local units in improving the quality of discipline education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers It is very important to create the unity in leadership and direction of improving the quality of discipline education for noncommissioned officers and soldiers Of which, it is necessary to create the unity of the party committees, commanders and staff at all levels in developing leadership resolutions, making plans to perform tasks of the unit; in deploying, assigning to organize the implementation of resolutions and plans; in checking, supervising, urging and evaluating the results of implementation of leadership resolutions and real plans and promoting the role and responsibility of exemplary cadres at local units with an aim to improve the quality of discipline education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers 4.1.2 Promoting the role, responsibility and unity of Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union organization and different forces at local units in improving the quality of discipline education for noncommissioned officers and soldiers The vast majority of non-commissioned officers and soldiers at local units are youth union members Thus, improving the quality of discipline education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers at local units mostly depends on the quality of union work and the youth movement of Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union organization Organizations and other forces at the grassroots units (Military Council; trade union; women ) play an important role in improving the quality of disciplinary education for noncommissioned officers and soldiers Promote the roles, responsibilities, and unity of these subjects in disciplinary education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers to make them have an appropriate awareness, responsibilities, duties and roles So as to fulfil every task and duty assigned 4.2 Renewing and perfecting the contents, forms and methods of discipline education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers at local units today 4.2.1 Renewing and perfecting the content of discipline education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers at local units today This is an important solution to improve the quality of disciplinary education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers 21 Accordingly, renewing and completing disciplinary education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers is constantly updating and supplementing new, practical, appropriate contents, close to the disciplined life and lower officers, soldiers and task characteristics of the unit, practical training and practice, of non-commissioned officers and soldiers at the grassroots unit Renewing and perfecting the content of disciplinary education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers must ensure the comprehensiveness, but must ensure both theory and practice, following the principles of the educational process and the rule of awareness The content of discipline education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers should be renewed in the direction of integrating with the political, ethical and traditional education of the army and units for non-commissioned officers and soldiers 4.2.2 Renewing and diversifying forms and ways of discipline for non-commissioned officers and soldiers at local units today Firstly, renewing and diversifying discipline education for noncommissioned officers and soldiers at local units The process of discipline education must be constantly renewed and diversified, combining both forms of general and private education, in which special attention is paid to renovating and improving the quality of general types of education Focus on the following forms: Discipline education through basic political education; through the implementation of the regime of law days, political days, spiritual culture; through the exploitation and use of Ho Chi Minh's room and law bookcases In addition, it is necessary to combine many other forms of education such as disciplinary education through political - news reports; through standard actions of staff in the unit; caring, grasping and resolving ideas, motivating and helping noncommissioned officers and soldiers to practice and obey discipline Secondly, renewing and diversifying ways of discipline education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers at local units Renewing and diversifying ways of discipline education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers at local units must ensure good inheritance, manipulation and promotion of the effectiveness of current educational methods The methods can be used such as: Persuasive education; persuasion combined with creating situations to deal with situations; organize training and implementation of 22 military rules, regimes and disciplines; through exemplary disciplinary action of staff; promoting the morale and responsibilities of non-commissioned officers and soldiers in self-education; education through criticism and self-criticism The process of disciplining education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers must be applied flexibly and effectively for specific subjects of education so as to improve the quality of discipline education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers at local units 4.3 Building and promoting the role of discipline environment at local units to improve the quality of discipline education for noncommissioned officers and soldiers at local units today 4.3.1 Forming and promoting a positive and healthy discipline system to improve the quality of discipline education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers at local units Forming and promoting a positive and healthy discipline system at local units is of great important to improve the quality of discipline education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers The content of forming the discipline system at local unit includes: The discipline value system in training and fighting readiness; in performing ceremonial and military manners; on duty, patrolling, guarding, stationing, guarding and protecting internal politics; in traveling in and outside the unit The construction must go along with the promotion of the role of the discipline system to improve the quality of discipline education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers Promoting the role of the disciplined value system needs to regularly filter and out-dated values, and at the same time supplement and develop new values, appropriate to the movement and change of practical tasks of units, cognitive characteristics of non-commissioned officers and soldiers in certain task and phase 4.3.2 Forming and promoting positive and healthy discipline relationships in order to improve the quality of discipline education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers at local units Positive and healthy discipline relationships at local units are those built on the basis of the State’s law, the army’s rules and disciplines, the units’ regulations, consistent with the nation ethical 23 tradition, ensuring the humanity, kindness, comradeship, love, attachment, mutual respect between officers and soldiers, between superiors and subordinates but still ensure the seriousness and integrity of the army’s discipline In order to improve the quality of discipline education for noncommissioned officers and soldiers at local units, it is necessary to build and implement the connection between leaders, officials and non-commissioned officers and soldiers; among non-commissioned officers and soldiers themselves 4.3.3 Forming and promoting the role of discipline institutions to improve the quality of discipline education for noncommissioned officers and soldiers at local units It is crucial in building and promoting the role of the discipline environment so as to improve the quality of discipline education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers at local units Of which, forming leadership institutions, improving the quality of discipline education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers at local units should be particularly focused on; formulating and strictly enforcing regulations on emulation, commendation and sanctioning; building and promoting the role of facilities at local units 4.4 Enhancing the subjective factors of noncommissioned officers and soldiers in improving the quality of their discipline education 4.4.1 Promoting the subjective factors of non-commissioned officers and soldiers in receiving knowledge about discipline It is essential to enhance the subjective factor of noncommissioned officers and soldiers in improving the quality of learning, training and observing their own discipline During the process of acquiring knowledge, non-commissioned officers and soldiers must handle the arising conflicts, thereby having a certain awareness and understanding of the State’s law, the army’s discipline, initially forming a "common background" on matters of the army discipline and the State’s law during the training process and after finishing the training and returning to their hometown 4.4.2 Promoting the subjective factors of noncommissioned officers and soldiers in transforming their knowledge into attitudes, motives and wills to improve the quality of their self-discipline education 24 To improve the quality of education and discipline of noncommissioned officers and soldiers, then the knowledge of discipline does not simply stop at non-commissioned officers and soldiers’ awareness, but must be transformed into their qualities and personalities By being orientated and educated, each non-commissioned officer or soldier must form his own attitude, motivation, belief, selfeducation, self-training to improve the quality of their self-discipline Leaders, commanders, concerned agencies and forces must create positive motives and determination for non-commissioned officers and soldiers in transforming knowledge into their attitudes and motivation Non-commissioned officers and soldiers themselves must harmonize their rights and interests with those of the collective; transforming awareness into positive motivation, determination to overcome difficulties in improving the quality of self-discipline education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers 4.4.3 Promoting the subjective factors of non-commissioned officers and soldiers in strictly following the army’s discipline This is a vital important solution, since non-commissioned officers and soldiers voluntarily train and strictly abide by the State's laws, the army's discipline, the unit's regulations, and fulfil all the main tasks mean that the quality of their discipline education is improved Therefore, it is necessary to create a healthy and serious discipline environment, creating the most favourable conditions for non-commissioned officers and soldiers to study, train and obey discipline Officials and commanders are exemplary models of discipline for non-commissioned officers and soldiers to study and follow Conditions for accommodation, study, daily life, facilities, landscape and environment are sufficient Besides, different organizations and forces at local units, especially the contingent of platoons, platoons and battalions should regularly, proactively and actively organize and maintain non-commissioned officers and soldiers who strictly abide by the army's discipline Commendation and punishment should be conducted appropriate to the provisions of the army regulations Conclusion of chapter A number of measures should be implemented simultaneously to improve the quality of discipline education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers at local units of the Vietnam People's Army Of 25 which, the most important measure is to promote the subjective factors of non-commissioned officers and soldiers to improve the quality of their discipline education CONCLUSION From the thesis-related research overview, the thesis states that: there has not been any scientific works directly, thoroughly and systematically researching, under the perspective of philosophy, the practical and theoretical issues, the current situation as well as solutions to improving the quality of discipline education for noncommissioned officers and soldiers at local units of the Vietnam People's Army today; accordingly, the thesis has indicated the fields which need further dealing with Improving the quality of discipline education for noncommissioned officers and soldiers at local units of the Vietnam People's Army is an indispensable and objective process and an urgent requirement in building the army today It is the process of the subjects’ appropriate impacts on the components making up the quality of discipline education by diverse contents and methods to create a qualitative change of non-commissioned officers and soldiers obeying the discipline Improving the quality of discipline education for noncommissioned officers and soldiers at local units of the Vietnam People's Army is regulated by many objective and subjective factors Of which, the unity of the subjects’ awareness, responsibility and practical activities; content, form and method of discipline education; discipline environment in local units; non-commissioned officers and soldiers’ subjective factors are the most basic elements deciding the effectiveness of this process In the past recent years, improving the quality of discipline education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers at local units has obtained positive achievements, but there still remain some shortcomings The advantages and limitations of improving the quality of discipline education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers are caused by several factors, both objective and subjective, of which the subjective causes are the main ones The process of improving the quality of discipline education for non-commissioned officers and soldiers at local units remains some contradictions, which need addressing in this thesis 26 To improve the quality of discipline education for noncommissioned officers and soldiers at local units of the Vietnam People's Army, it is necessary to thoroughly, synchronously and flexibly utilize a number of solutions, but the most important one is to promote the subjective factors of non-commissioned officers and soldiers in improving the quality of their discipline education ... strengthening discipline in the Vietnamese people's army today" by Nguyen Van Thanh; "Ho Chi Minh's ideology on discipline of the revolutionary army" by Nguyen Manh Huong; "The system of disciplined... are the team of platoon leaders, platoon officials, party committees, Party cells, commander of the company, party committee, battalion commander Noncommissioned officers and soldiers are the... discipline training for noncommissioned officers and soldiers at local units of the Vietnam People's Army and at military schools The structure of the study The thesis includes: Introduction, chapters