Vietnam’s military art and the requirements for its development in the new situation (Continued)

Saturday, August 17, 2024, 20:36 (GMT+7)
Vietnam’s military art in the two resistance wars against the French and Americans is the military art of a people’s war that is very distinctive and unique, based on a combination of traditional and modern elements. It is the military art of a liberation war, gradually developing to reach its peak during the final stage of the resistance war against the Americans for national liberation.

Dien Bien Phu Victory and the lessons for the cause of building a strong national defence

Friday, May 10, 2024, 09:30 (GMT+7)
Nowadays, to enhance the robust development of national defence capabilities and establish a solid foundation for the comprehensive, whole people, independent, self-reliant, and modern national defence, we must build and leverage the comprehensive strength of the country across all military, political, ideological, economic, cultural, social, security, diplomatic, science and technology domains, combining the national strength with power of the era.

Inter-zone 5 with Dien Bien Phu Campaign

Tuesday, May 07, 2024, 10:04 (GMT+7)
Inter-zone 5 coordinated closely with the main battlefield Dien Bien Phu and other strategic directions, dispersing the French troops, restraining them and making them unable to support each other. Each battlefield was reciprocal to the other by their “fire-sharing” roles. Together they contained the enemies, preventing them from supporting each other. People and troops of both battlefields emulated to destroy the enemies and gain victories. This was one of the main causes to the French defeat in Dien Bien Phu.

Dien Bien Phu Victory – a “golden epic” in the history of Vietnam

Monday, May 06, 2024, 13:39 (GMT+7)
This victory is seen as a “golden epic” and a brilliant milestone in the Vietnamese nation’s history in the 20th century, which has been likened to Bach Dang, Chi Lang and Dong Da victories and thrilled the people across the country. In the wake of that historic moment, the words, namely Vietnam – Ho Chi Minh – Dien Bien Phu resounded throughout the Vietnamese nation and the world, becoming an unremitting source of pride for the whole nation and providing tremendous impetus to anti-colonial struggles the world over

The art of “striking at one point to destroy reinforcements” during Central – Lower Laos Campaign 1954

Wednesday, April 24, 2024, 10:56 (GMT+7)
In coordination with other theatres during the Winter – Spring Strategic Offensive of 1953 – 1954, we launched a surprise campaign in Central – Lower Laos, inflicting major losses to the enemy, forcing them to disperse their mobile reserve forces in multiple directions. This is a small-scale campaign conducted in a strategic area, far from our logistics bases; however, with the employment of the art of “striking at one point to destroy reinforcements”, we were able to achieve very high combat efficiency, contributing to the ultimate victory of our Resistance War against French Colonialism

The value of Dien Bien Phu Victory to the building of revolutionary, regular, elite, gradually modern Vietnam People’s Army

Tuesday, May 07, 2019, 15:29 (GMT+7)
The landslide Victory of Dien Bien Phu marked a golden milestone in the country’s history of national construction and protection and expressed the Vietnamese people’s courage, wisdom, and invincible strength in the era of Ho Chi Minh. The victory was of significance to the human race’s movement for national independence, peace and progress, encouraging colonies in Asia, Africa, and Latin America to rise up and fight for their national independence

The art of setting up battle array in Dien Bien Phu Campaign

Tuesday, May 07, 2019, 15:24 (GMT+7)
Dien Bien Phu Campaign was the zenith of the 1953-1954 Winter Spring Offensive; it marked the advancement of Vietnamese Military art at its finest in our resistance war against French Colonialism. And the art of setting up battle array in this campaign was one of the most significant military feats in this period

Promoting the spirit of independence, self-reliance and determination to fight and win in the Dien Bien Phu Campaign for the sake of national construction and defense

Tuesday, May 07, 2019, 08:01 (GMT+7)
65 years have elapsed, yet the significance of and historic lessons from the Dien Bien Phu victory continue to reverberate through Vietnam, giving added impetus to the entire Party, people and military’s path to reform, international integration, development and the construction and defense of the socialist Vietnamese Fatherland

A milestone in the history of Vietnam

Saturday, May 04, 2019, 11:23 (GMT+7)
In response to President Ho Chi Minh’s Appeal for National Resistance (December 19th 1946), the entire Party, military and people went to a durable resistance war against the French Colonialists. Following the guidelines on all-people, comprehensive, long-lasting, self-reliant resistance war, with obsolete weapons and the spirit of “sacrificing for the Homeland”, our military and people defeated the French Colonialists’ military strategies one by one

The art of using forces in Dien Bien Phu Campaign

Tuesday, May 08, 2018, 06:39 (GMT+7)
In the 1953-1954 Winter Spring, implementing the Navarre Plan, the French Colonialists launched a series of operations in a bid to annihilate our main forces and take the initiative in the battlefield. Notably, thanks to the Operation Mouette in Southwest Ninh Binh, the French won “the first-round victory” over the Viet Minh. The French Army’s High Command in the Indochina optimistically believed that they basically destroyed the Division 320, “detained” the Division 304 in Thanh Hoa, and delayed the Viet Minh’s Autumn Winter Offensive in the Red River Delta