Chapter III
DEFENSE EDUCATION
Article 19.- Scope and subjects of defense education
1. Defense education shall be carried out nationwide with contents, forms and methods suitable to each subject.
2. Defense education is an official study subject in senior high-schools upwards.
The defense knowledge constitutes one of the compulsory criteria for officials holding leading or managerial positions in agencies and organizations. The subjects and specific criteria shall be defined by the Government.
Article 20.- Defense education contents
1 Educating in civil rights and obligations to defend the socialist Vietnamese Fatherland; defense and security task requirements; the nation's tradition of fighting foreign invaders; fostering patriotism, the love for socialism, the sense of vigilance against all schemes and tricks of hostile forces opposing and sabotaging the socialist regime and the State of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
2. Educating in and fostering defense knowledge and necessary military skills; training citizens in physical strength to be ready to perform their duty of defending the Fatherland.
3. Fostering public employees and heads of agencies, organizations in the basic knowledge about military policies and state management over national defense.
Article 21.- Responsibilities to organize defense education
1. The Ministry of Defense shall assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with the Ministry of Education and Training in, formulating defense education contents and programs suitable to each subject and each educational level; direct the organization of defense education nationwide.
2. Agencies and organizations shall, within the scope of their respective tasks and powers, have to organize the realization of defense education contents and programs according to the provisions of law.
3. The State encourages and creates conditions for agencies, organizations, individuals and families to develop various forms of vocational guidance education and mass education in defense.
4. The mechanisms and policies on defense education shall be provided for by the Government.