The entire military strives to successfully accomplish the Resolution of the 11th Military Party Congress and military, defence tasks for 2025
Monday, February 10, 2025, 10:46 (GMT+7)
The world and domestic situations present a mix of favourable conditions, opportunities, difficulties, and challenges, posing new demands and heavier responsibilities for the cause of building and defending the Fatherland. To successfully fulfill the tasks of 2025 and the goals and missions set out by the 11th Military Party Congress requires the entire military to strengthen unity and consensus, overcome difficulties, and decisively implement solutions.
Changes in Russia’s revised “nuclear doctrine”
Friday, January 24, 2025, 07:05 (GMT+7)
Russia's revised nuclear doctrine has been supplemented and amended in the direction of expanding the target, scope of deterrence and lowering the activation threshold. That will help Moscow have more options in using nuclear weapons; at the same time, it is an important basis for protecting the security, national interests, and territorial sovereignty of Russia.
10 Major Global Military and Defence Events of 2024
Thursday, January 09, 2025, 10:06 (GMT+7)
In 2024, the global landscape witnessed unprecedented complexity and unpredictability, marked by intensifying strategic competition among major powers and escalating military conflicts across various regions. These developments further destabilised an already volatile global security environment. To provide a comprehensive overview of the global security landscape, the National Defence Journal presents a roundup of the 10 most significant military and defence events
The trend of military build-up in Asia - Pacific region
Monday, November 25, 2024, 16:07 (GMT+7)
For many years, especially since the outbreak of Russia - Ukraine conflict in 2022, the trend of military build-up has intensified all over the world, including the Asia - Pacific region. Although it has yet to reach the level of an arms race, this trend has been impacting various aspects of global and regional security and development
Continuing to raise the quality, efficiency, and effectiveness of party and political work within the Vietnam People’s Army in the new period
Tuesday, November 19, 2024, 16:37 (GMT+7)
Party and political work within the Vietnam People’s Army (VPA) is a very important part of the Party’s leadership over the Military, acting as a basic duty of all-level party committees, political commissars, junior political commissars, commands, and political agencies, aiming to maintain and strengthen the Party’s absolute, direct, comprehensive leadership over the VPA, contributing to building up the Military’s working-class, people-oriented, and national natures and turning the VPA into a reliable political force absolutely loyal to the Fatherland, Party, State, and people
Applying the principle of “Firm in objectives, flexible in tactics” in national defence, security, and the protection of the Fatherland
Friday, August 23, 2024, 09:44 (GMT+7)
“Firm in objectives, flexible in tactics” is a core philosophy of President Ho Chi Minh, which has become a guiding principle for the Party in its struggle for national liberation and unification. Today, in the context of a rapidly evolving and unpredictable global and regional landscape, this principle holds even greater significance and must be thoroughly understood and effectively applied in the realms of national defence, security, and the safeguarding of the Fatherland.
Trends in the development and use of tactical missiles in recent wars
Monday, July 22, 2024, 20:30 (GMT+7)
Using tactical missiles to attack targets deep inside the enemy's line has been continuously used in recent wars and military conflicts. As gaining air superiority is increasingly difficult because air defence systems are also adjusted to counter, using tactical ballistic missiles with a maximum range of 500km is an indispensable "firepower punch" for army units.
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
Australia's new Defence Strategy
Tuesday, June 18, 2024, 10:08 (GMT+7)
Faced with the new strategic environment in the world and the region, Australia must have a new approach to protect its sovereignty and national interests. The defence strategic review report requires the organisational structure of the Australian armed forces to be both joint and centralised to improve combat readiness and rapid response capabilities.
Finland’s accession to NATO and its implications on the region and the world
Tuesday, May 14, 2024, 02:46 (GMT+7)
After Russia launched the “special military operation” in Ukraine, the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs issued a report on the international security environment on 13 April 2022, stating that Russia’s action had completely altered the security environment in Europe and that Russia posed a significant security threat to Finland. This is the clearest indication that Finland abandoned its policy of neutrality, and it also served as a sign that the country would draw closer to NATO.