Vietnamese Volunteer Soldiers - the core component of the Vietnam - Laos combat alliance

Tuesday, October 29, 2024, 16:23 (GMT+7)
On 30 October 1949, the Standing Board of the Indochinese Communist Party Central Committee decided: “Vietnamese military forces will fight and work to help Laos establish their own system and will be organised as Volunteer Soldiers”. Under the leadership of our Party and President Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese Volunteer Soldiers excellently fulfilled their task of giving assistance to the Lao revolution, worthy of the cornerstone of the Vietnam - Laos combat alliance

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

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.

The 75-year-old heroic Vietnam People’s Army remains steadfast in the Party’s leadership

Saturday, December 21, 2019, 17:20 (GMT+7)
On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the All-People National Defence Festive Day (December 22nd 1989 - December 22nd 2019) and the 75th founding anniversary of the Vietnam People’s Army (December 22nd 1944 - December 22nd 2019), the National Defence Journal would like to introduce an important article by comrade Nguyen Phu Trong, Chief of the Communist Party of Vietnam, President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Secretary of the Central Military Commission

The Geneva Accords of 1954 and lessons on the art of securing the victory step by step

Friday, July 19, 2019, 13:56 (GMT+7)
Assessing the results of the Geneva Conference (1954) on Indochina, most of scholars from many countries agreed that it had been a victory of Vietnam and a success of its strategy to achieve the victory step by step in the war for national liberation

Dien Bien provincial armed forces concentrate on making themselves comprehensively strong

Wednesday, July 10, 2019, 13:18 (GMT+7)
On 12th July, 1949, Lai Chau propagation armed Group No.1 was established (the predecessor of present-day Dien Bien provincial armed forces) in response to the Party’s policy on ramping up the people’s armed forces to meet the urgent requirements of the resistance war against the French colonialists

The rear and logistics support in Dien Bien Phu Campaign and current issues

Wednesday, May 08, 2019, 20:50 (GMT+7)
In Dien Bien Phu Campaign, being united and creative, our army and people overcame all difficulties and hardships to provide sufficient human and material resources, making a great contribution to the victory that “resounded throughout the five continents and shook the world”. The lesson about the rear and logistics support in Dien Bien Phu Campaign requires ongoing research and development in the current cause of national construction and defense

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

Political and spiritual factors in Dien Bien Phu Victory and the building of the political Military today

Monday, May 06, 2019, 11:03 (GMT+7)
Dien Bien Phu Victory has forever gone down in our peoples’ history of fighting foreign aggressors as an immortal epic and “a golden brilliant feat of arms” in the 20th century. Also, it is the triumph gained by heroic Vietnamese peoples as well as national liberation movement around the globe. The Dien Bien Phu Victory, which “resonated throughout five continents and shook the world”, carries profound epochal values and international meaning