Promoting the Role of Cultural Institutions to Overcome the Tradition-Modernity Gap in the Development of Military Culture

representative of the Party; promptly supplement new values with the breath of the times to enrich the cultural capital of soldiers, so that soldiers are not confused when choosing current cultural values. At the same time, actively participate in the process of creating and perfecting a new system of values, new standards of Vietnamese people in international integration, fighting against anti-cultural factors or over-emphasizing modern cultural values, forgetting and denying the noble values of national cultural traditions.

Modernizing traditional cultural values in developing military culture is to absorb and supplement advanced cultural values to enrich the cultural traditions of the army, soldiers and the nation. Our national history has proven that through acculturation and exchange, whether by forced or voluntary means, many traditional cultural values of the Vietnamese nation have been affirmed, and at the same time, the Vietnamese cultural value system has also been supplemented with many new, advanced values, enriching and diversifying the traditional cultural traditions of the nation and military culture. Modernizing traditional cultural values in developing military culture is to selectively absorb and assimilate the progress, the truth - goodness - beauty in the culture of the nation and other countries through exchange and acculturation to deepen the traditional cultural values of the nation and the army, contributing to the goal of building an advanced culture with strong national identity, increasing the cultural wealth of the Vietnamese people, including soldiers.

Third, regularly and harmoniously resolve the two trends of traditionalization and modernization in the military culture of the Vietnam People's Army.

Developing military culture needs to be firmly based on tradition to develop steadily, taking tradition as a fulcrum to selectively absorb modern values and transform them into traditional values, increasing the depth of tradition in the military. Regularly modernize tradition by adding new values, making culture

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The military is progressive. When conducting orientation, it is necessary to focus on harmoniously combining the two trends. If it is too biased towards one side, it will lead to imbalance or uneven development, just like when the traditional-modern relationship in the development of military culture is not properly resolved, but only emphasized and absolutized on the modern factor, it will make the development of military culture unsustainable, "rootless", lacking vitality from the depth of tradition. On the contrary, if the traditional factor is absolutized, it will lead to the formation of a conservative, stagnant, slow-to-renew culture, denying dynamism and creativity in the military field. Therefore, in order for the military culture to have both tradition and modernity, it is necessary to synchronously implement traditionalization and modernization and vice versa.

Fourth, adding new modern values to tradition in developing the military culture of the Vietnam People's Army.

In the general development trend of society, the cultural needs of soldiers are constantly increasing. Along with the development trend of mankind, especially the development of science and technology, new quintessential values of human culture appear more and more and are received easily and quickly by officers and soldiers through many different channels and sources, especially from the system of modern media and the Internet. Based on that reality, units in the whole army need to perceive and forecast the inevitable movement and development trends of the times. From there, there are appropriate and effective policies and measures to ensure the absorption of the most advanced and latest values in the development process of human society to contribute to timely supplementing new values in the development of military culture of the Vietnam People's Army. The system of modern values constantly refreshes traditional values, a culture without modernity becomes backward, poor, and lifeless. Moreover, the role of modernity does not destroy traditional values but rather enhances cultural values.

The tradition of the military always reflects and carries the breath of the times. Any culture needs modernity to increase the richness, richness, and diversity of its traditional values. The development of military culture is the same, modernity adds new values for soldiers to perfect their dignity and temperament on the basis of their inherent cultural traditions. On the other hand, with the strong development in all areas of social life today, combined with the increasing number of cultural values due to cultural exchange and acculturation from the integration process, it is impossible not to absorb modern cultural values that are suitable to the national customs and traditions, military standards to achieve the dual purpose: both enriching national culture and increasing one's own cultural capital.

The human tendency is always towards modernizing life in all aspects, modernity is a criterion set and a goal to aim for in the development process. Therefore, it is a goal to strive for humanity in general, for soldiers in particular. Military culture is nurtured and formed from the national cultural tradition, the revolutionary tradition of the army, modernity makes military culture always have new values of the times, it is only perfected when it fully converges the amount of tradition, the amount of modernity to create traditional - modern qualities in its culture. Therefore, the development of military culture in the unit must be closely led and directed by the Party Committee, commanders, political commissars, and political officers at all levels. It must be a process that is closely organized, elaborate, and serious with specific programs, plans, contents, and criteria to build and nurture soldiers with a healthy mindset, proficient capacity, skills, ethics, personality, and lifestyle suitable for development in the military environment and the social community, with the goal of building a comprehensively developed Vietnamese culture and people, aiming at truth - goodness - beauty. Therefore, the goal of modernity in developing military culture is to ensure

Ensuring that the foundation of traditional cultural values is always supplemented, developed, and completed promptly in an advanced and fresh direction, helping soldiers always keep up with the breath of modern life, increasingly better meeting the practical requirements of unit building, army building, and firmly protecting the socialist Vietnamese Fatherland today.

Creativity is an indispensable requirement of modernity, thanks to creativity, people are increasingly developing and improving their material and spiritual life. To have modern values requires constant creative efforts. Human needs are unlimited, because once the set results are achieved, people do not stop and continue to move towards higher needs, this is also an inevitable cycle of development. Therefore, modernity always plays a guiding role, encouraging people to constantly strive for creativity. In the army, promoting the creative role of modernity in relation to tradition in order to connect tradition - modernity and raise the cultural awareness of soldiers requires Party committees, commanders, political commissars and political officers at all levels to strengthen leadership and direction, constantly innovate propaganda and education work and gradually bring soldiers into training environments with increasing levels of difficulty to ensure that soldiers have a deep awareness of the traditional values of the Party, nation, army and unit. On that basis, it is necessary to pay attention to building and creating a favorable environment so that soldiers not only enjoy traditional cultural values but also know how to create new cultural values in accordance with the needs, aspirations, psychology and legitimate interests of soldiers. Thereby, contributing to making national culture and military culture rich, prosperous and contemporary, thereby helping soldiers themselves to mature comprehensively in terms of morality, intelligence, physique and aesthetics.

4.2.2. Promoting the role of cultural institutions to overcome the gap between tradition and modernity in developing the culture of soldiers of the Vietnam People's Army

Promoting the role of cultural institutions is of great significance in overcoming the gap between tradition and modernity in training and improving cultural behavior for soldiers of the Vietnam People's Army. Military cultural values are formed and developed from military activities in the cause of nation building and defense of our people. Those military cultural values play a role in guiding all thoughts, behaviors and relationships of all soldiers. This orientation requires units at all levels to research, generalize and concretize into traditional military cultural contents and values in accordance with the duties and tasks of soldiers; at the same time, it is necessary to research and promptly supplement new cultural contents and values in accordance with the development of the situation and new task requirements, thereby promoting the role of cultural institutions to educate and improve these values at the grassroots units.

To improve the effectiveness of cultural institutions, it is necessary to strengthen cultural facilities, invest heavily in technical equipment and cultural materials, actively preserve and repair to prolong their lifespan and effectively exploit and use those cultural equipment and materials. Cultural facilities such as traditional artifacts, cultural works, Ho Chi Minh rooms, systems of billboards, posters, bulletin boards, flower gardens, ornamental plants, etc. are important means of conveying cultural content, values, and standards, helping soldiers raise awareness, adjust their attitudes, and behaviors in a progressive and positive direction. At the same time, to promote the role of units in promoting cultural institutions, it is necessary to foster their comprehensive capacity in both theoretical awareness and action capacity, in planning and implementation capacity, in professional capacity and mass mobilization.

At the same time, the grassroots units, based on the characteristics of the unit's situation, ensure close unity and synchronization between the purpose, form, motto, method, and means of education through cultural institutions; promote the combined strength of political education with military organization and administration work and other factors affecting the education process. Closely combine cultural education and military education, promote the overall cultural impacts in the lives and activities of soldiers. At the same time, create conditions for soldiers to participate in selecting, evaluating, and creating cultural values in diverse forms of military activities. On that basis, receive the total cultural values in the military cultural environment at the grassroots unit. In addition, it is necessary to optimally use means, forms, methods, organizational measures, policies, etc. to improve the effectiveness of disseminating and receiving cultural values; Take advantage of the power of synthesizing different aspects in the military cultural environment through establishing and creating a mechanism for the synthesis of the system of cultural values, cultural relations, forms of cultural activities and military cultural institutions in the process of development.

Pay attention to perfecting cultural institutions and improving the quality of cultural activities such as: Ho Chi Minh room, tradition room, library, training ground bookcase; build good operating regulations and regularly adjust and supplement them in a practical and effective way to ensure smooth coordination between departments. At the same time, regularly perfecting institutional means according to the correct staffing and forms is a favorable condition for traditional cultural values of the nation to be propagated, educated, preserved, applied, and developed in performing tasks, enhancing resistance to counter-cultural phenomena infiltrating the unit and making soldiers behave culturally while performing duties and tasks.

4.2.3. Strengthening material conditions to resolve the traditional-modern relationship in developing military culture of the Vietnam People's Army

In implementation, it is necessary to properly orient the cultural needs of soldiers from receiving, enjoying to creating culture in a reasonable manner, in accordance with the value system, social norms and military cultural characteristics in the Vietnam People's Army. Base units need to combine research, grasp, and awareness of the movement and development trends of the infrastructure system, cultural needs with guidance and orientation for the formation of reasonable cultural needs; promptly adjust and take administrative measures against behavioral manifestations that harm the healthy needs of society and the army. In addition, it is necessary to properly resolve the relationship between types of interests, focusing on the relationship between material interests and spiritual interests. If material interests are absolute and spiritual interests are neglected, it will cause unpredictable consequences. Moreover, in reality, when material needs have been satisfied to a certain extent, spiritual interests become even more important; In specific conditions, it will affect the subject in orienting and implementing material benefits in a progressive and humane direction. Therefore, paying full attention to and properly resolving the relationship between material benefits and spiritual benefits; finding a mechanism to handle them satisfactorily is an important solution to create motivation for soldiers. To implement this content, it is necessary to have a policy regime that synchronously impacts both the material motivation system and the political and spiritual motivation of soldiers. The basic motto of implementing social policies for soldiers is: fairness, positivity, initiative, and effectiveness.

Investing in building facilities and equipment to serve the process of developing military culture plays a huge role in contributing to improving and perfecting the military culture.

Military culture. If the facilities and equipment lack uniformity and modernity, the process of developing military culture will encounter many difficulties. Therefore, strengthening cultural facilities, investing heavily in technical equipment and cultural materials, actively preserving, repairing, prolonging the life and effectively exploiting and using cultural equipment and materials is an inevitable requirement. Cultural facilities such as traditional artifacts, cultural works, Ho Chi Minh rooms, systems of panels, posters, bulletin boards, flower gardens, and ornamental plants are important means of conveying cultural content, values, and standards, helping soldiers raise awareness, adjust attitudes, and behaviors in a progressive and positive direction.

Base units shall base on the characteristics of the unit's situation to ensure close unity and synchronization between the purpose, form, motto, method, and means of education through cultural institutions; promote the combined strength of political education with military organization and administration work and other factors affecting the education process. Closely combine cultural education and military education, promote the overall cultural impacts in the lives and activities of soldiers. At the same time, create conditions for soldiers to participate in selecting, appraising, and creating traditional cultural values in diverse military activities and forms; on that basis, receive the total cultural values in the military cultural environment at the base unit. In addition, it is necessary to make optimal use of means, forms, methods, organizational measures, and policies to improve the effectiveness of transmitting and receiving cultural values; Take advantage of the power of synthesizing different aspects in the military cultural environment through establishing and creating a mechanism for the comprehensive impact of the system of cultural values, cultural relations, forms of cultural activities and military cultural institutions on the development process.

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