199 1 After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Vietnam lost its backer. The development of domestic heavy industry and military industry is slow, and the speed of weapon renewal is getting slower and slower. Later, the speed of economic development did not keep up with Vietnam, which was no longer the largest military power in Southeast Asia, and ranked only between twenty and thirty in the global military ranking?
The most critical reason that affects the combat effectiveness of the Vietnamese army is that the army is doing business. Vietnam's economy has grown very fast in recent years, and its annual GDP can reach more than 200 billion US dollars. However, 65,438+00% of Vietnam's GDP, or $20 billion, is contributed by the Vietnamese army, and its annual military expenditure is only about $5 billion. The army does not need state support, but also earns money to support it. Is this the only one in the world?
The Vietnamese army has its own communication company, its own ports, docks, energy companies and real estate companies. As long as it can make money, the Vietnamese army basically does this. Soldiers are often responsible for delivering supplies. Friends in the navy spend hundreds of dollars a month, and thousands of dollars outside are rarely trained. They are all engaged in the economy.
China's former defense minister Zhang Aiping once said: Doing business between the army and the government will inevitably lead to the downfall of officials, and the downfall of officials will inevitably lead to corruption. Buying and selling military uniforms is a disgrace to the army and a national tragedy. Advocating military businessmen is tantamount to self-destruction of the Great Wall Military Affairs Council, which will breed corruption, undermine the military style, and weaken the ability and combat effectiveness of the army to perform its duties to a certain extent. The current Vietnamese army is likely to be like the Japanese Sakata Division in World War II. It just wants to make money, not fight?
However, Vietnam's military explosive power is still great. With a standing force of 490,000, it ranks first in Southeast Asia. The United States and Japan regard Vietnam as a pawn in the regional game and have always encouraged Vietnam to increase its military spending. The defense budget for developing Vietnam has increased from $654.38+0.3 billion in 2006 to $565.438+0 billion in 2008?
In the past decade, Vietnam's arms imports ranked eighth in the world, the United States lifted its arms embargo on Vietnam, and Russia also increased its sales of advanced weapons to Vietnam. The Vietnamese army's current weapons and equipment have been replaced by guns, and all the old weapons and equipment have been eliminated. Kilo-class submarines, cheetah frigates, Su -27, Su -30 fighters and T-90S tanks are all equipped with Vietnamese first-line troops.
Objectively speaking, Vietnam's military strength simply does not have the ability to lay out the world, but Vietnam, which can still show its strength in Southeast Asia, has always insisted that it doesn't matter whether the war ends immediately or continues to delay. All we have to do is wait until the harvest time.