The art of force organisation and deployment in the 1954 Upper Laos Campaign

Saturday, March 30, 2024, 17:27 (GMT+7)
The victory of the 1954 Upper Laos Campaign played a significant role in establishing a favourable position for the Dien Bien Phu front to implement the “firm attack, firm progress” combat principle, achieving a victory “resounding across continents, shaking the world”. The distinctive art of force deployment drawn from the Campaign should continue to be studied and creatively applied in the current mission of national defence.

Regiment 102 steps up ideological education, discipline management, and safety assurance

Thursday, January 06, 2022, 10:19 (GMT+7)
Being founded on January 6th, 1947, Regiment 102, aka Capital Regiment, under Division 308 of Army Corps 1 was one of the first main regiments of the Vietnam People’s Army (VPA). Immediately after the establishment, in response to President Ho Chi Minh’s Appeal for National Resistance, under the spirit of “sacrificing for the Homeland,” cadres and soldiers of the Regiment courageously fought to pin French troops down during 60 days and nights

The Army Corps 1 improves the quality of its logistics work

Friday, February 14, 2020, 14:10 (GMT+7)
Over the years, the Army Corps 1’s Logistics Branch has synchronously taken ideological, organisational, and professional measures for well performing the logistics work. Grounded on the Central Military Commission’s Resolution 623-NQ/QUTW on “the Military’s logistics work towards 2020 and beyond,” on July 5th 2013, the Corps’ Logistics Department formulated the Plan 560/KH-CHC to concretise the basics, goals, and targets of the Resolution

Strategic diversion in the Dien Bien Phu Campaign

Thursday, February 14, 2019, 07:53 (GMT+7)
65 years ago, to create a diversion and favourable condition for our units in the Dien Bien Phu Campaign to transform the posture, we launched the Upper Laos Campaign (January 29th 1954 to February 13th 1954) and gained a significant victory. The Campaign provides us with lessons on the art of strategic diversion which remains valuable both theoretically and practically

On enhancing maneuverability of infantry division

Tuesday, May 30, 2017, 07:40 (GMT+7)
In modern warfare, together with other factors, force maneuver is an important factor; even, in certain circumstance and opportunity, it would change the situation in the battlefield and the war