Some solutions to build a politically elite Commando Force

Thursday, July 25, 2024, 18:13 (GMT+7)
President Ho Chi Minh’s guidance provides a comprehensive and profound summary of the nature, formation, and development of the Force, outlining fundamental principles for its construction and combat process, serves as a guiding light for all actions of the Corps. The term “special” permeates every facet, with “exceptionally firm political stance” playing a pivotal role in determining victories and shaping the Corps’ tradition

A brief on NATO's Comprehensive Defence Plan and its global and regional impacts

Friday, June 28, 2024, 15:36 (GMT+7)
In July 2023, in Vilnius, Republic of Lithuania, North Atlantic Treaty Organisation leaders approved its Comprehensive Defence Plan. The plan is critically hailed as complete, detailed and ambitious one. Up to now, its connotations and global and regional impact have drawn the international spotlight

Commando College emulates good teaching and efficient learning

Tuesday, January 23, 2024, 15:08 (GMT+7)
Currently, the task of building the Army and developing the Commando Corps sets new and more demanding requirements for the College. To effectively complete the educational and training mission, its Party Committee and Board of Directors determine that it is necessary to implement comprehensive and synchronised measures to leverage the combined strength of all forces. Among these, the emulation of “good teaching and efficient learning” according to Uncle Ho’s teaching, should be intensified and elevated to a new level.

Water Commando Brigade 5 enhances the quality of combat training

Sunday, November 19, 2023, 09:50 (GMT+7)
To satisfy the increasingly demanding task requirements, the Brigade has promoted the cohesive organisation of training for cadres and detachments with higher intensity, flexibility, and agility. The contents of intensive specialised training have been supplemented. Importance has also been attached to combat training and exercises, parachute training so that soldiers can achieve proficiency in the use of weapons and equipment, martial arts, and close combat. This also includes camouflage, guerrilla tactics, and continuously enhancing the overall quality and combat capabilities to meet the task requirements in the current situation.

Use of the artillery-missile force to counter enemy strategic airborne landings in strategic defensive operations in the northern theatre of war

Monday, August 28, 2023, 07:27 (GMT+7)
In modern warfare, strategic airborne landings will involve use of forces on a grand scale, including both troops and heavy weapon systems, and employment of special forces as the central elements to conduct airborn operations. The balance of power is likey to favour the enemy due to their superiority in forces and weapons. The enemy can suddenly alter this balance of power in a direction of the theatre of war. Therefore, the use of artillery-missile force must thoroughly grasp the viewpoint of leveraging the overall power of people’s warfare, using the three-element artillery and missile force to strike anywhere at anytime to triumph over the enemy.

Collaboration among forces in ensuring security and order in maritime border areas

Tuesday, March 21, 2023, 08:55 (GMT+7)
Proposal of solutions to improve the effectiveness of collaboration between the Border Guard and other forces, especially those under command of the MND, with a view to making the maritime border areas more secure is both an immediate pressing issue and a long-term one. The article seeks to propose several solutions to implementation of this vital mission.

Enhancing combat power of the military in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Monday, February 27, 2023, 07:33 (GMT+7)
“Building an adept, compact, strong People’s Army to meet requirements of national construction and defence in the new situation” needs to base on concrete condition of situations in the country and the world to address emerging issues in a timely and effective manner. The matters of principle and consistency are to pay constant attention to leverage of the human factor; raise the spirits of independence, self-reliance, and creativeness in order to ceaselessly improve the quality of the VPA’s weapons and technical equipment; work out the best ways to combine humans and weapons aimed to generate the VPA’s comprehensive power.

The art of special warfare in our General Offensive and Uprising in Spring 1968 – lessons for the cause of defending the Motherland today

Tuesday, January 24, 2023, 21:57 (GMT+7)
The glorious victory of our people in general and of the Special Force in particular during the Spring 1968 General Offensive and Uprising left us many invaluable lessons; in which, the unique feature of the art of special warfare operation was a fundamental and significant issue that needs to be further studied, developed and applied to the cause of national defence today.

Ha Nam Provincial Armed Forces focus on building comprehensively strong, “exemplary and typical” units

Friday, March 19, 2021, 15:24 (GMT+7)
Despite several difficulties due to the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and lack of working and living facilities and training grounds, the building of comprehensively strong, “exemplary and typical” units of the Provincial Armed Forces has achieved many positive results.

60 years of diplomatic relations and defence cooperation between Vietnam and Cuba

Sunday, August 23, 2020, 09:51 (GMT+7)
The 60-year history of diplomatic relations and defence cooperation between Vietnam and Cuba has been highlighted by the valuable and wholehearted assistance in all aspects between the two peoples, contributing to the victory in the national liberation struggle of Vietnam in particular, the cause of building and defending the Fatherland of the two countries in general