Building a “strong, extensive” militia and self-defence force on a par with its task requirements

Thursday, March 27, 2025, 08:42 (GMT+7)
Building a “strong, extensive” militia and self-defence force with a high level of synergy and combat power is a matter of strategic importance; it is a duty of the entire Party, people, and Vietnam People’s Army (VPA), aimed at developing military - defence potentialities and postures, meeting the requirements of Fatherland protection

Some issues on the work of special propaganda in the Army today

Tuesday, March 11, 2025, 08:02 (GMT+7)
In the changing situation, special propaganda work needs to be intensely evaluated, clearly perceived and effectively implemented, meeting the demands and tasks of building the Army, strengthening the national defence, and safeguarding the Fatherland in the new situation.

Ho Chi Minh’s thought on building the Army with “politics being taken as the roots” – significance and practical values

Thursday, December 28, 2023, 14:45 (GMT+7)
Ho Chi Minh’s thought on building the Army with “politics being taken as the roots” laid a scientific and revolutionary theoretical foundation for building our VPA at its very onset. Focusing on building the Army in terms of politics is the fundamental, consistent issue in Ho Chi Minh’s military ideology and doctrine. The robust development of the force organisation and military operations of an army ready for combat in close association with an army ready for work and for production proves Ho Chi Minh’s discernment of the crucial importance of politics to the vitality and strength of a revolutionary army.

Building an “exemplarily, typically” comprehensively strong Mass Mobilisation Department to successfully fulfil its missions in the new situation

Friday, April 29, 2022, 10:13 (GMT+7)
Over the past 75 years of construction, combat, and development, under leadership and direction from the Central Military Commission, the Ministry of National Defence, and especially the GPD, with coordination and support by other offices both inside and outside the Military, the MMD has always grasped the Party’s guidelines and the State’s laws and policies and strived to successfully fulfil all assigned missions to deserve to be an office for giving strategic advice on leading, directing, guiding, and organising mass mobilisation work

Promoting its heroic tradition, the Capital City of Hanoi focuses on building strong defensive zones

Friday, October 08, 2021, 10:19 (GMT+7)
Bringing into play the tradition of “sacrificing for the Homeland” in the past 75 years of construction, combat, and development, the military and people of Hanoi have been focusing on building the municipality into a solid defensive zone as a favourable condition for making the Capital City increasingly wealthy, civilised, and modern

Several strategic directions of the Party for the South revolution in 1971

Thursday, September 30, 2021, 07:54 (GMT+7)
In 1971, under the Party’s sound leadership, our military and people defeated the enemy’s large-scale operations, “pacification” plan, and strategy of “Vietnamisation” to create advantages and strength for the South revolution. 50 years have elapsed, but that leadership remains valuable and should continue to be studied and applied to the war to defend the Homeland (if occurred)

Cu Chi Tunnel Relic Site - an “ideal destination” for defence and security education

Wednesday, August 18, 2021, 14:41 (GMT+7)
Bringing into play historic sites of national construction and protection for education of national tradition is an important part of defence and security education. With its military historical values as a symbol of the indomitable spirit of the people from the “iron land,” Cu Chi tunnel network is a “perfect destination” to provide defence and security education

Combining local people’s warfare with main corps’ operations during the resistance war against the U.S.

Tuesday, July 20, 2021, 07:28 (GMT+7)
Our people’s resistance war against U.S., for national salvation provides us with many valuable lessons on military strategies and campaign-level, tactical arts, amongst which combining local people’s warfare with main corps’ operations is a typical example that should continue to be further studied, developed and applied to the war to defend the Homeland (if it occurred)

The ideology of mercy in Vietnamese military culture

Wednesday, July 29, 2020, 06:44 (GMT+7)
To establish such a culture, the Vietnamese people have always considered “compassion and righteousness” as the consistent ideology in the political and military guidelines for national salvation and protection. The ideology of mercy, humanity and compassion acts as the core ideological value of Vietnam’s military culture

Bringing into play the spirit of the 1975 Spring General Offensive and Uprising to build a strong, extensive militia and self-defence force

Tuesday, April 28, 2020, 22:12 (GMT+7)
The militia, self-defence, and guerrilla force made significant contributions to the victory of the 1975 Spring General Offensive and Uprising, enabling our people and Military to completely liberate the South and reunify the country. Bringing into play that victory, currently, the militia and self-defence force should be made strong, extensive and qualified, closely organised, and provided with training and combat readiness courses in an effective manner so that it could devote itself to building solid defensive zones right at grass-roots level