The role of the Commandos in the Great Spring Victory 1975 and the imperative of building the special forces in the new context

Tuesday, April 08, 2025, 20:20 (GMT+7)
By upholding the heroic tradition and building upon the resounding victories achieved during the Great Spring Offensive 1975, the Special Forces must continue to strive for ever-greater accomplishments. They must remain worthy of the title: an exceptionally elite, extraordinarily brave, astutely daring force that executes deep-strike operations and secures decisive victories.

Military Region 4 continues to make significant breakthroughs in administrative reforms and digital transformation

Monday, December 30, 2024, 16:05 (GMT+7)
The Party Committee and Command of Military Region 4 have consistently put a high priority on leadership and direction to enhance the quality and effectiveness of administrative reforms and digital transformation. It is considered as core priorities and catalytic breakthroughs aimed at bolstering the efficiency and effectiveness of management, command, and operational coordination across agencies and units, enhancing synergy and combat capability

Live-fire combined rotating exercise of Division 9 – some food for thought

Tuesday, December 24, 2024, 10:45 (GMT+7)
Improving the quality of live-fire combined rotating exercises is an urgent requirement of special importance in improving the combat capability and combat strength of infantry divisions. This issue should be further studied and discussed, in order to improve the quality and effectiveness of this important work.

Several issues on fighting enemy’s seaborne landings in a war for Fatherland protection

Wednesday, October 30, 2024, 10:21 (GMT+7)
In the history of our nation’s struggle against foreign aggressions, apart from the Northern invaders who rarely used the sea route, most other forces launched their first invasions against our country from the sea. In case of a war to defend the Fatherland in the future, it is highly likely that the sea will remain the main direction of the enemy’s assault. Therefore, studying how to counter enemy’s seaborne landings, both in theory and in practice, is crucial for such a maritime nation as Vietnam

Promoting its heroic tradition, Commando Brigade 198 raises the quality of training and combat readiness

Saturday, August 17, 2024, 20:38 (GMT+7)
To keep pace with the development of its task requirements, the Brigade has focused on making itself “exemplarily, typically” comprehensively strong, raising its synergy and combat power, and particularly improving the quality of training and combat readiness as a central task via many practical, effective measures

Evolution of military artistry in the Dien Bien Phu Campaign and contemporary issues of training operational and strategic-level cadres

Friday, May 10, 2024, 09:35 (GMT+7)
In the new revolutionary period, military training needs to focus on nurturing and continually improving comprehensive knowledge, with the central focus being on the military knowledge for the contingent of operational and strategic-level cadres. In combat, the challenge for operational and strategic-level cadres is the ability to assess the enemy situation, flexibility, logical thinking, keen judgment,... “thinking up schemes, devising strategies,” to gradually put the enemy into a passive position.

The role of artillery in the Dien Bien Phu Campaign and the issue of building an “elite, compact, and strong” Artillery Corps

Wednesday, May 08, 2024, 07:06 (GMT+7)
In the strategic decisive battle of Dien Bien Phu, our artillery force demonstrated its courage and creativity, proving its role as the primary ground firepower of our armed forces, contributing significantly to the victory of the campaign. Via the battle, many valuable lessons were drawn, and they need to be studied and developed to build the Artillery Corps into an “elite, compact, and strong” force, advancing towards modernity, meeting the requirements and objectives of the cause of defending the Homeland in the new situation

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.

Ho Chi Minh City’s armed forces enhance the quality of defensive area exercises

Wednesday, February 14, 2024, 20:28 (GMT+7)
The defensive area exercise is the highest, most comprehensive content and serves as the measure to evaluate the quality and effectiveness of military and defence work at the local in general, and in the construction and activities of provincial and city defence zones in particular. Recognicing this and based on the local reality, mission requirements, in recent years, the Ho Chi Minh City High Command has chaired and closely coordinated with departments and agencies to actively advise the City Party Committee and People's Committee to lead and direct the organisation of various defensive area exercises on a large scale, achieving high results.

Naval Region 4 builds a comprehensively strong, “exemplary and typical” unit

Wednesday, January 31, 2024, 11:45 (GMT+7)
the Region’s Party Committee and High Command have proactively implemented comprehensive leadership and directive measures in building a comprehensively strong, “exemplary and typical” unit according to Directive No. 79/CT-BQP, dated 22 July 2022, of the Minister of National Defence, and have achieved this status for consecutive years. This lays the foundation for the Region to enhance the overall quality and combat strength and successfully fulfil all assigned tasks, thus genuinely becoming the core force in protecting the national maritime sovereignty, receiving high appreciation from the Navy, the Ministry of National Defence, and the people.