The entire military strives to successfully accomplish the Resolution of the 11th Military Party Congress and military, defence tasks for 2025

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"

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.

General Department of Politics of the Vietnam People’s Army and Party’s communication and education work

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

1st Army College focuses on improving the training quality

1st Army College focuses on improving the training quality

Wednesday, February 14, 2024, 20:34 (GMT+7)
Being a centre of training junior infantry command – staff officers for the whole army, the 1st Army College has regularly combined education with training; appreciated the transmission of combat experience and training reality; connected the college with the battlefields and units; considered the units’ combat ability as the measure to adjust and improve the quality of education and training.

Rejecting the wrong perspectives that "The August Revolution in 1945 fails to bring about real democracy and freedom for the people"

Rejecting the wrong perspectives that “The August Revolution in 1945 fails to bring about real democracy and freedom for the people”

Sunday, September 17, 2023, 22:24 (GMT+7)
The verifications from the historical witnesses and the reality of freedom in Vietnam have once again confirmed that the August Revolution in 1945 brought the real freedom for the people. The democracy and freedom have connected with the national independence and been the inevitable results of the national independence. It has definitely not a fake freedom. Presently, those values have been continuously shining in the flow of history of the nation and era. Neither any evil plots nor forces could deny the values of independence and freedom that the August Revolution in 1945 brought for the country and people of Vietnam.

Promoting the Victory on April 30th, 1975 in today’s national construction and protection

Promoting the Victory on April 30th, 1975 in today’s national construction and protection

Tuesday, April 28, 2020, 16:49 (GMT+7)
The Victory on April 30th, 1975 marked a significant milestone in Vietnam’s national history of struggle against foreign invaders, completely ending our people’s enduring resistance war against the U.S., for national salvation which was full of hardships and losses but extremely glorious. This is a great victory of the struggle for national liberation in the 20th century under the leadership of our Party and President Ho Chi Minh, continuing the Vietnamese people’s thousand-year heroic history of national construction and protection

Dien Bien provincial armed forces concentrate on making themselves comprehensively strong

Dien Bien provincial armed forces concentrate on making themselves comprehensively strong

Wednesday, July 10, 2019, 13:18 (GMT+7)
On 12th July, 1949, Lai Chau propagation armed Group No.1 was established (the predecessor of present-day Dien Bien provincial armed forces) in response to the Party’s policy on ramping up the people’s armed forces to meet the urgent requirements of the resistance war against the French colonialists

Vietnamese, Chinese defence ministers hold talks in Hanoi

Vietnamese, Chinese defence ministers hold talks in Hanoi

Tuesday, May 28, 2019, 14:30 (GMT+7)
The talks were held between General Ngo Xuan Lich – Politburo member, Deputy Secretary of the Central Military Commission and Minister of National Defence of Vietnam – and Sen. Lt. Gen. Wei Fenghe – State Councillor and Minister of National Defence of China, who is paying an official visit to Vietnam from May 27 to 29

The Division 312 applies the experiences in the Dien Bien Phu Campaign to its work of political, ideological education for soldiers nowadays

The Division 312 applies the experiences in the Dien Bien Phu Campaign to its work of political, ideological education for soldiers nowadays

Monday, May 06, 2019, 07:37 (GMT+7)
The Division’s achievements were attributed to various factors; however, the most important thing was that it had well carried out the work of political, ideological education for its staff and built up their political will and determination. The Division effectively conducted the work of political, ideological education for troops and built up their political zeal and combat resolve before and during the Dien Bien Phu Campaign

10 notable defence-military events around the globe in 2018

10 notable defence-military events around the globe in 2018

Saturday, January 05, 2019, 06:55 (GMT+7)
In 2018, the world witnessed historic dialogues and intense strategic competition between major powers. To depict the world in 2018, the National Defence Journal would like to introduce 10 notable defence-military events

Great Spring Victory and aspirations for national rise
50 years have elapsed, but the epic of the Great 1975 Spring Victory, with the historic Ho Chi Minh Campaign as its pinnacle, forever resounds through the nation and every single Vietnamese citizen. Under the Party’s glorious flag, that epic continues to resonate on the front of production, in the fight against hunger, poverty, and backwardness, in the protection of sacred national sovereignty over borders, seas, and islands