Coordination between the General Political Department of the Vietnam People’s Army and the Central Theoretical Council in researching and developing theories on military and national defence

Monday, November 18, 2024, 21:05 (GMT+7)
Thoroughly grasping and strictly implementing President Ho Chi Minh’s viewpoint on the pioneering role of revolutionary theory, our Party has alway paid attention and taken care the work of researching and developing theoretical frameworks, including military and national defence theory, to provide scientific foundations for shaping the Party’s directions, government’s policies and laws in the cause of building and safeguarding the nation throughout various stages of revolution.

On the key battle to engage enemy’s operational-level airborne landing troops in military region defence

Monday, July 29, 2024, 16:48 (GMT+7)
During an operational process, the military region can launch various types of campaigns and apply different tactics and waves of operational activities flexibly to repel enemy attacks, including the key battle to counter enemy airborne landing at the operational level of war.

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

The art of “striking at one point to destroy reinforcements” during Central – Lower Laos Campaign 1954

Wednesday, April 24, 2024, 10:56 (GMT+7)
In coordination with other theatres during the Winter – Spring Strategic Offensive of 1953 – 1954, we launched a surprise campaign in Central – Lower Laos, inflicting major losses to the enemy, forcing them to disperse their mobile reserve forces in multiple directions. This is a small-scale campaign conducted in a strategic area, far from our logistics bases; however, with the employment of the art of “striking at one point to destroy reinforcements”, we were able to achieve very high combat efficiency, contributing to the ultimate victory of our Resistance War against French Colonialism

The whole Army enhances military science work amidst new requirements

Sunday, April 07, 2024, 21:31 (GMT+7)
Military science and technology have witnessed robust developments, gained significant achievements, mastered several modern military science and technology fields, proactively designed, manufactured, and upgraded a large number of weapons and equipment. Military logistics science and medical science have actively researched into methods of logistics and medical assurance for forms of warfare, natural disaster prevention and combat, climate change management, and environmental protection

Developing the cadre of lecturers at Army College No.1 in light of Ho Chi Minh’s thoughts

Sunday, February 18, 2024, 22:03 (GMT+7)
In the coming years, facing the demands of the reform of education and training and the cause of Army modernisation, the College is required to continue to “develop a cadre of lecturers and educational management officers with reasonable structure in terms of quality and quantity, meeting the standards”. To accomplish this political task, party committees and commanders at all levels need to implement a set of synchronised measures, among which the creative application of Ho Chi Minh’s thought in developing the cadre of lecturers is an urgent issue.

Distinctive art of applying methods of warfare in Phuoc Binh - Bu Dop Campaign of 1969

Monday, January 22, 2024, 14:21 (GMT+7)
Phuoc Binh – Bu Dop Campaign is a small-scale offensive campaign, but of significant importance. It enables us to conduct subsequent campaigns at a larger scale and force to defeat the US’s strategy of Vietnamisation.  Lessons learnt on military art, especially the art of applying methods of warfare deserve further research and creative use in today’s cause of safeguarding the Fatherland.

On ensuring mobility routes in strategic defensive operations in a potential Patriotic War

Wednesday, August 23, 2023, 14:29 (GMT+7)
To ensure sufficient mobility routes for combat forces and technical hardware to fight the enemy, the Field Commands and its subordinate departments must preplan the required number of routes across the operational area, before, during, and after combat, encompassing both flatlands, midlands, mountainous regions, as well as waterways. This demands that the commanders of various departments and units, especially the combat engineering forces, develop proper plans for ensuring mobility routes in accordance with the defensive strategy even during peacetime, and are ready to improve, repair, and renovate such routes during combat.

Promoting international cooperation in Defence Industry towards the goal of building a modern army

Friday, January 27, 2023, 07:04 (GMT+7)
Vietnam’s Defence Industry needs to continue to identify activeness and self-reliance as the centre, implementing the policy of multilateralisation and diversification of cooperation in procurement, production, technical assurance for weapons, technical equipment, and technology transfer. This serves as an important factor for our defence industry to achieve more accomplishments in research, development, production, and manufacturing of new products, thus contributing to the modernisation of the Army and the defence of the Fatherland.

The art of strongpoint encirclement and reinforcement ambush in Operation Hiep Duc – Dong Duong

Friday, November 25, 2022, 17:01 (GMT+7)
Operation Hiep Duc – Dong Duong caused the initial destruction of the US and Saigon puppet forces in the contiguous area between the mountainous area and the coastal plain, expanding liberated zones and creating developments in our strategic offensive posture in the Southern Battlefield. The success of this operation provided us many invaluable lessons, especially in the art of strongpoint encirclement, reinforcement ambush that needs to be study further and employed in potential future defensive war to protect the Motherland.