Building a “strong, extensive” militia and self-defence force on a par with its task requirements
Thursday, March 27, 2025, 08:42 (GMT+7)
Building a “strong, extensive” militia and self-defence force with a high level of synergy and combat power is a matter of strategic importance; it is a duty of the entire Party, people, and Vietnam People’s Army (VPA), aimed at developing military - defence potentialities and postures, meeting the requirements of Fatherland protection
A journey of glorious feats of arms
Saturday, December 21, 2024, 06:27 (GMT+7)
In the last days of the year, the entire Party, people, and Military are solemnly organising the 80th founding anniversary of the Vietnam People’s Army and the 35th anniversary of the All-People National Defence Festive Day to acknowledge and honour the massive contributions of the whole people and Vietnam People’s Army to our Party and nation’s revolutionary cause over the past 80 years. Those festive days of the entire nation become more special as our country has obtained significant achievements in 2024 and over the four years of the 13th National Party Congress tenure
National great unity - the root of willpower, faith, and strength for Fatherland protection
Monday, December 16, 2024, 20:20 (GMT+7)
National great unity is a treasured tradition of our nation, symbolising the Vietnamese people’s willpower, faith, and strength, playing a decisive role in every victory of our revolutionary cause. Hence, our Party and President Ho Chi Minh have always placed considerable weight on tapping the national great unity bloc strength as an important, consistent strategy and major lesson of the Vietnamese revolution
Enhancing international integration and defence diplomacy under the Party’s foreign lines
Friday, December 13, 2024, 15:41 (GMT+7)
The Central Military Commission and the Ministry of National Defence have carried out the work of international integration and defence diplomacy synchronously, comprehensively, effectively, achieving many significant results. The VPA has actively, proactively given advice to the Party and State on dealing with strategic issues relating to military - defence tasks, security, and border protection, well managing defence relations with other countries, particularly our neighbours, major powers, and strategic partners
Military Region 1’s armed forces promote their core role in building robust all-people national defence
Monday, December 09, 2024, 16:37 (GMT+7)
Viet Bac - Military Region 1 is known as the “cradle of the August Revolution”; it was selected as “Safety Zone” and “Resistance Capital” by our Party Central Committee during the resistance war against the French; it is the place where Vietnam Propaganda Liberation Army Team, the forerunner of the Vietnam People’s Army, was established. Bringing into play that glorious revolutionary tradition, Military Region 1’s armed forces have actively played their core role in collaborating with Viet Bac’s party committees, authorities, and citizens to build strong all-people national defence
General Department of Politics of the Vietnam People’s Army and Party’s communication and education work
Monday, November 18, 2024, 21:01 (GMT+7)
The GDP has played a central role in carrying out strategic staff work, directing, guiding, and implementing party and political work in combat, combat readiness, training, exercises, search and rescue, natural disaster and epidemic prevention and control. The GDP has always proactively, actively given advice and direction on building a politically strong VPA, ensuring the CPV’s absolute, direct, all-round leadership over the Military
Naval Region 3 promotes propaganda on seas and islands
Friday, November 08, 2024, 11:17 (GMT+7)
Propaganda on seas and islands is an important content that the Party Committee and the Command of Naval Region 3 have led and directed to implement regularly and comprehensively, contributing to raising awareness, responsibility and love for the seas and islands of all classes of people, officers and soldiers, firmly protecting the sovereignty of the strategic seas of the Central region of the Fatherland.
Vietnamese Volunteer Soldiers - the core component of the Vietnam - Laos combat alliance
Tuesday, October 29, 2024, 16:23 (GMT+7)
On 30 October 1949, the Standing Board of the Indochinese Communist Party Central Committee decided: “Vietnamese military forces will fight and work to help Laos establish their own system and will be organised as Volunteer Soldiers”. Under the leadership of our Party and President Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese Volunteer Soldiers excellently fulfilled their task of giving assistance to the Lao revolution, worthy of the cornerstone of the Vietnam - Laos combat alliance
Missile Regiment 250 focuses on making itself “exemplarily, typically” comprehensively strong
Friday, September 20, 2024, 14:42 (GMT+7)
Cadres and soldiers of the Regiment have always upheld revolutionary vigilance and combat readiness to avoid falling into passivity in the air; the quality of training and troops’ task performance have been improved; logistics and technical work has been synchronously, creatively carried out, thereby meeting the requirements of training, combat readiness, and contingency missions
The 1954 Geneva Accords – classic diplomatic lessons
Friday, July 19, 2024, 08:59 (GMT+7)
70 years ago, on 21 July 1954, the Geneva Accords on the cessation of hostilities in Vietnam were signed, becoming a historic milestone in the country’s revolutionary diplomacy. The signing of the Geneva Accords, which mainly resulted from the Dien Bien Phu victory that “resounded across the five continents and shook the globe”, victoriously ended our country’s prolonged resistance war and completely smashed the nearly-100-year yoke of French colonialism in Vietnam