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

Tuesday, July 30, 2024, 10:15 (GMT+7)
It must be affirmed that Vietnam’s military art is the one of the Vietnamese people’s war, combining traditional and modern elements. Vietnam’s military art emerged and gradually developed through the thousands of years of the nation’s struggle to build and safeguard the country.

Applying Ho Chi Minh’s thought on war rear to the cause of national building and protection today

Friday, July 19, 2024, 07:31 (GMT+7)
Throughout the course of the Vietnamese revolutionary leadership, especially during the resistance wars against French colonialists and American imperialists, as well as during the cause of building socialism in the North, President Ho Chi Minh placed great emphasis on the task of constructing and defending the rear, considering it one of the decisive factors for the victory of the struggle for national liberation, construction, and protection

Studying and applying the viewpoint “all-people, comprehensive resistance war” in Fatherland defence

Thursday, April 25, 2024, 14:13 (GMT+7)
The viewpoint “all-people, comprehensive resistance war” is the centrepiece of Ho Chi Minh’s military thought. The correct and creative application of this viewpoint in practice was one of the most fundamental factors that led to the great victories in the two resistance wars against French colonialists and US imperialists. In the event of a war to protect the Fatherland (if war is to occur), this viewpoint still retains its value and needs to be studied and applied effectively to practice

Promoting national “soft power” in the cause of national defence and protection of the Fatherland

Thursday, December 28, 2023, 10:51 (GMT+7)
Viet Nam always emphasises justice, great national unity, national independence and socialism, consistency of its strategic principles, flexibility in its stratagems, compliance with President Ho Chi Minh’s perspectives on acting flexibly while maintaining firmly his own principles, being a friend of all democratic countries, and having no desire to make an enemy of any countries. This is one of a fundamental source of “soft power,” together with other types of power, to make up the national overall power to firmly safeguard the socialist Vietnamese Fatherland.

On the fighting method of the armed forces of military regions in combined offensive operations

Saturday, April 29, 2023, 08:58 (GMT+7)
In a defensive war to protect the Motherland, with a highly developed people’s warfare posture, a combined offensive operation at the military-region level will be implemented right from the beginning and throughout the conflict. To successfully conduct this type of operation, it is necessary to study and address many issues of military art; in which the combat method is the key issue that needs to be thoroughly studied in both practice and theory.

Bringing into play heroic tradition to continue building a strong Militia and Self-Defence Department on a par with its task requirements

Friday, February 11, 2022, 07:40 (GMT+7)
Over the past 75 years of construction and development, Militia and Self-Defence Department has obtained a lot of brilliant achievements and built up its tradition of “loyalty, creativity, unity, and determination to win.” Bringing into play that glorious tradition, the Department’s Party Committee and Command have been synchronously adopting various measures to build a strong Department capable of meeting its task requirements in the new period

Ho Chi Minh Sea Trail - an everlasting miracle

Thursday, October 21, 2021, 13:14 (GMT+7)
Under the PCC’s direction, on October 23rd, 1961, the General Command decided to establish the Sea Transport Group 759 - the forerunner of the present-day Naval Brigade 125 to opportunely provide personnel and means of war for the South. That decision proved the strategic vision of the PCC and the GMC as it immediately met the contextual developments

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)

Enhancing defence and security education in light of the 13th Party Congress Resolution

Wednesday, May 26, 2021, 07:39 (GMT+7)
Ministries, branches, localities, and armed forces should continue thoroughly grasping the Party's directives and resolutions and the State's laws on this work, especially the Law on Defence and Security Education 2013 and newly issued legal documents, including Circular No.172/2020/TT-BQP issued on December 30th, 2020 by the Ministry of National Defence on the framework program for defence and security education.

A look back at 60 years of the Liberation Army of South Vietnam

Friday, February 26, 2021, 09:24 (GMT+7)
The Liberation Army of South Vietnam (LASV) was founded in the early stage of our resistance war against the U.S. imperialists, for national salvation, which expressed our Party’s creativity in the building of the revolutionary armed forces. Under the Party’s leadership, the LASV was unceasingly developed to cooperate with our military and people across the country in completely liberating the South and unifying the country