On the establisment of military posture in military region defence operations
Friday, March 21, 2025, 13:32 (GMT+7)
To secure victory in defence operations, military region commanders and headquarters must address multiple challenges regarding force organisation, posture, theoretical and practical aspects of preparation, and execution of combat operations. In particular, mastering the art of creating and establishing military, political, and economic posture is crucial.
The art of fighting enemy counterattack in the 1975 Central Highlands Campaign
Monday, March 10, 2025, 15:11 (GMT+7)
During the 1975 Central Highlands Campaign, our command devised and executed plans to achieve success in multiple key engagements. Among these, the decisive fight to repel the enemy’s counterattack aimed at retaking Buon Ma Thuot was a major success. This victory created a favourable opportunity for us to advance and annihilate the entire enemy force in the strategic Central Highlands region
Building an elite, mobile signal force in defence of the military region
Sunday, January 26, 2025, 16:12 (GMT+7)
The task of ensuring communication is diverse and demanding, simultaneously supporting many components, forces, tasks, combat activities over a wide range. This requires comprehensive implementation of many measures to build strong signal capabilities, forces, and posture from peacetime. Among these, building an elite, mobile signal force is one of the important factors.
Several issues on defence mobilisation in the cause of building and safeguarding the Fatherland
Sunday, November 24, 2024, 21:31 (GMT+7)
Researching and executing all contents of the defence mobilisation not only help effectively prevent and deal with all threats from the outsides, but also are stable foundations to bring into play the overall power of the whole nation in the cause of building and safeguarding the Fatherland.
Coordination between the General Political Department of the Vietnam People’s Army and the Central Theoretical Council in researching and developing theories on military and national defence
Monday, November 18, 2024, 21:05 (GMT+7)
Thoroughly grasping and strictly implementing President Ho Chi Minh’s viewpoint on the pioneering role of revolutionary theory, our Party has alway paid attention and taken care the work of researching and developing theoretical frameworks, including military and national defence theory, to provide scientific foundations for shaping the Party’s directions, government’s policies and laws in the cause of building and safeguarding the nation throughout various stages of revolution.
National Defence Academy applies the Resolution of the 8th Plenum of the Party Central Committee (13th tenure) to training and scientific research
Thursday, November 14, 2024, 18:18 (GMT+7)
As the centre of training senior cadres of the Party, State, and People’s Army, the National Defence Academy (NDA) has grasped and seriously carried out measures to quickly bring the Resolution into life and timely support training, scientific research, and proposal on issues relating to military, national defence, and protection of the Fatherland.
General Le Trong Tan’s remarkable contributions to Vietnam’s military art
Friday, October 04, 2024, 16:10 (GMT+7)
Holding various commanding positions from tactical and operational to strategic levels, commanding almost all campaigns and decisive strategic operations in the two resistance wars against the US and the French as well as in the war to defend the Southwestern border, he made significant contributions to the development of Vietnam’s unique, creative military art and our nation’s victory against the most powerful imperialists of the 20th century
Applying the principle of “Firm in objectives, flexible in tactics” in national defence, security, and the protection of the Fatherland
Friday, August 23, 2024, 09:44 (GMT+7)
“Firm in objectives, flexible in tactics” is a core philosophy of President Ho Chi Minh, which has become a guiding principle for the Party in its struggle for national liberation and unification. Today, in the context of a rapidly evolving and unpredictable global and regional landscape, this principle holds even greater significance and must be thoroughly understood and effectively applied in the realms of national defence, security, and the safeguarding of the Fatherland.
Evolution of military artistry in the Dien Bien Phu Campaign and contemporary issues of training operational and strategic-level cadres
Friday, May 10, 2024, 09:35 (GMT+7)
In the new revolutionary period, military training needs to focus on nurturing and continually improving comprehensive knowledge, with the central focus being on the military knowledge for the contingent of operational and strategic-level cadres. In combat, the challenge for operational and strategic-level cadres is the ability to assess the enemy situation, flexibility, logical thinking, keen judgment,... “thinking up schemes, devising strategies,” to gradually put the enemy into a passive position.
Building a strong National Defence Academy on a par with military modernisation
Saturday, December 16, 2023, 19:55 (GMT+7)
The academy attaches importance to development of a corps of lecturers, education management cadres, and scientific researchers with sufficient quantity and quality on a par with requirements and missions. Education, training, and scientific research are regularly reformed to improve quality. The academy successfully completes training programmes for both domestic and international learners as provided by plans for each year and course, which contributes not only to the building of a high-quality human resource for the VPA but also increased state management of national defence and security and strengthening of military, defence power, and protection of the Fatherland.