The art of fighting enemy counterattack in the 1975 Central Highlands Campaign
Monday, March 10, 2025, 15:11 (GMT+7)
During the 1975 Central Highlands Campaign, our command devised and executed plans to achieve success in multiple key engagements. Among these, the decisive fight to repel the enemy’s counterattack aimed at retaking Buon Ma Thuot was a major success. This victory created a favourable opportunity for us to advance and annihilate the entire enemy force in the strategic Central Highlands region
Rach Gam - Xoai Mut Victory - A distinctive example of military strategy in riverine terrain
Monday, January 27, 2025, 17:44 (GMT+7)
The victory over the Siamese invaders, culminating in the monumental battle of Rach Gam - Xoai Mut, stands as a brilliant achievement and a source of immense national pride. This exemplary engagement, distinguished by its unique features of riverine military strategy, remains a paragon of warfare on riverine terrain.
Building an elite, mobile signal force in defence of the military region
Sunday, January 26, 2025, 16:12 (GMT+7)
The task of ensuring communication is diverse and demanding, simultaneously supporting many components, forces, tasks, combat activities over a wide range. This requires comprehensive implementation of many measures to build strong signal capabilities, forces, and posture from peacetime. Among these, building an elite, mobile signal force is one of the important factors.
Several issues regarding military region-level defensive campaigns
Monday, September 16, 2024, 16:13 (GMT+7)
In a (potential) war to defend the Homeland, defensive campaigns will play a crucial role in military region-level defensive operations and may be organised right from the start or during the course of defensive operations, enhancing the protection of key areas in a strategic axis. Therefore, even in peacetime, it is urgent that the conditions, locations, and scale of such a campaign be thoroughly studied
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.
Coordination between mobile and on-site forces in counteroffensive campaigns in the war to safeguard the Fatherland
Saturday, March 30, 2024, 17:21 (GMT+7)
Coordination between the mobile and on-site forces participating in counteroffensive campaigns in the war to safeguard the Fatherland is carried out under new conditions. Factors concerning the adversaries and our forces have witnessed developments, thus deserving further research and improvement in both theory and practice in order to ceaselessly enhance the effectiveness of operational coordination between the two forces to meet requirement of modern wars.
On the use of armoured forces in strategic counteroffensive in national protection war
Sunday, February 18, 2024, 22:05 (GMT+7)
The use of armoured forces in strategic counteroffensive must be based on a thorough understanding of the principles of strategic operations in our war strategy to defend the Homeland. It must also be adapted to the enemy’s and our own situation and the combat environment to ensure flexibility, innovation, and effectiveness.
Top 10 defence, military events of the world in 2023
Friday, January 12, 2024, 08:37 (GMT+7)
The world continued to witness complex developments in 2023. While the Russia – Ukraine conflict intensified, new flashpoints arose from military coups, conflicts, local wars, and increasingly fierce strategic competition among major powers, making global security outlook further bleak. To illustrate that picture, the National Defence Journal has selected the top 10 defence, military events of the world in 2023.
The art of artillery deloyment in the Route 9 - Southern Laos Counteroffensive Operation of 1971
Friday, November 17, 2023, 08:13 (GMT+7)
After nearly two months of continuous combat, with high determination, flexible and innovative application of the art of counteroffensive warfare, and leveraging the unified strength of combined arms, we “fought brilliantly, won spectacularly, and achieved outstanding results.” This led to the failure of the enemy’s plan to expand beyond their outer defensive perimeter, resulting in the elimination of a significant enemy force, the destruction of numerous war vehicles, and the complete collapse of the “Saigon military main force plus maximum U.S. firepower support” formula - the backbone of the “Vietnamisation” strategy. The success of the operation marked a milestone in the development of our art of large-scale combined arms warfare tactics, with the art of using artillery prominently featured.
Some issues on unconventional warfare nowadays
Wednesday, July 19, 2023, 17:59 (GMT+7)
Unconventional warfare is a form of warfare that has been conducted by the US and Western countries against certain nations that oppose or are hostile to them, especially the socialist ones. Therefore, understanding its nature and ways of conducting operation to develop effective preventive and countermeasures is an important issue.