Minister of Defence (Vietnam)
Minister of National Defence | |
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Bộ trưởng Bộ Quốc phòng Việt Nam | |
Ministry of Defence | |
Style | His Excellency |
Member of | Cabinet |
Reports to | The President The Prime Minister |
Appointer | The President |
Term length | No fixed term |
Formation | 8 May 1945 |
First holder | Chu Văn Tấn |
Deputy | Vice Minister of Defence |
Website | www.mod.gov.vn |
The Minister of Defence is the
Council for National Defense and Security. The current Minister of Defence is Army General Phan Văn Giang
, since 8 April 2021.
Chain of command
- General Secretary of the Communist Party
- President
- Prime Minister
- Minister of Defence
- Chief of the General Political Department
- Chief of the General Staff
- Deputy Ministers of Defence
Lists of Ministers of Defence
No. [note 1] |
Portrait | Name (birth–death) |
Took office | Left office | Rank [note 2] |
Prime Minister |
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Minister of Defence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (1945 – 76) | ||||||
1 | —
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Chu Văn Tấn (1909–1984) |
May 8, 1945 | March 1946 | —
|
Ho Chi Minh |
2 | Phan Anh (1912–1989) |
March 1946 | May 11, 1946 | —
| ||
3 | Võ Nguyên Giáp (1911–2013) |
May 11, 1946 | May 8, 1947 | —
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4 | Tạ Quang Bửu (1910–1986) |
May 8, 1947 | May 8, 1948 | —
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3 | Võ Nguyên Giáp (1911–2013) |
May 8, 1948 | July 2, 1976 | 5
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Phạm Văn Đồng | ||||||
7
| ||||||
Minister of Defence of the Republic of South Vietnam (1969 – 76) | ||||||
—
|
—
|
Trần Nam Trung (1912–2009) |
June 8, 1969 | July 2, 1976 | —
|
Huỳnh Tấn Phát |
Minister of Defence of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (1976 – present) | ||||||
1 | Võ Nguyên Giáp (1911–2013) |
July 2, 1976 | February 1980 | 4 | Phạm Văn Đồng | |
2 | Văn Tiến Dũng (1917–2002) |
February 1980 | February 16, 1987 | 6 | ||
—
| ||||||
3 | Lê Đức Anh (1920–2019) |
February 16, 1987 | August 9, 1991 | 6 | Phạm Văn Đồng | |
Phạm Hùng | ||||||
Đỗ Mười | ||||||
4 | Đoàn Khuê (1922–1999) |
August 9, 1991 | December 29, 1997 | 5 | Đỗ Mười | |
Võ Văn Kiệt | ||||||
6 | ||||||
5 | Phạm Văn Trà (born 1937) |
December 29, 1997 | June 28, 2006 | 5 | Phan Văn Khải | |
11 | ||||||
6 | Phùng Quang Thanh (1949-2021) |
June 28, 2006 | April 8, 2016 | 8 | Nguyễn Tấn Dũng | |
2 | ||||||
7 | Ngô Xuân Lịch (born 1954) |
April 9, 2016 | April 7, 2021 | —
|
Nguyễn Xuân Phúc | |
6 | ||||||
8 | Phan Văn Giang (born 1960) |
April 8, 2021 | Incumbent | —
|
Phạm Minh Chính | |
12 |
See also
Notes
- ^ These numbers are not official.
- ^ The Central Committee when it convenes for its first session after being elected by a National Party Congress elects the Politburo. The Politburo members are ranked in an official order of precedence every time the body is elected by the Central Committee.[1]
References
- ^ Van & Cooper 1983, p. 69.
Bibliography
- Van, Canh Nguyen; Cooper, Earle (1983). Vietnam under Communism, 1975–1982. Hoover Press. ISBN 9780817978518.