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.
Dien Bien Phu Victory – Lessons on promoting the spirit of determination to fight, determination to win
Tuesday, May 07, 2024, 09:51 (GMT+7)
70 years ago, under the leadership of the Party and President Ho Chi Minh, our military and people won the victory of Dien Bien Phu that “resounded across the five continents, shook the globe”, successfully ending the resistance war against the French, stimulating the rise of colonies for national liberation, marking the complete collapse of colonialism on a global scale. That great victory has profound theoretical and practical values with a lot of lessons for the country’s renovation, integration, development, construction, and protection cause
Border Guard Squadron 38 steps up management and protection of national sovereignty and border security at sea
Saturday, April 27, 2024, 11:11 (GMT+7)
Managing and protecting national sovereignty and security in the border area in general, at sea in particular constitute a central political task of the Border Guard Force. Being fully aware of that task, Border Guard Squadron 38 has been synchronously implementing measures to manage and firmly protect national sovereignty as the basis for building a Gulf of Tonkin of peace, stability, security, safety, cooperation, and sustainable development
Chi Linh city focuses on building a strong defensive zone
Friday, April 26, 2024, 09:50 (GMT+7)
Building provinces and municipalities into strong defensive zones represents a strategy of our Party and State and a central, routine task of sectors, localities, and the whole political system and people. Therefore, the Party Committee and People’s Committee of Chi Linh city have focused their leadership and direction on performing this task via synchronous, proper measures as a favourable condition for the city’s rapid, sustainable development
Saigon Newport Corporation well performs its economic and defence tasks
Wednesday, April 24, 2024, 15:46 (GMT+7)
In the past 35 years of construction, operation, and maturity (since 15th March 1989), the Corporation has always successfully fulfilled all assigned tasks and achieved robust development to become a typical business of our country and Army and greatly contribute to marine economic development and the protection of seas and islands
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
Direction of building defence capability in the Strategy to Safeguard the Fatherland
Tuesday, April 23, 2024, 19:38 (GMT+7)
To turn defence capability into a fundamental, core element and national defence strength requires a close linkage among the above-mentioned capabilities within a unitary whole. Additionally, many effective, creative, synchronous solutions must be adopted, contributing to building of a strong all-people national defence and firm protection of the Fatherland in the new situation.
The US - Japan - Korea alliance and its ambition to change the balance of forces in the region
Tuesday, April 23, 2024, 19:35 (GMT+7)
According to researchers, if Japan and South Korea join the AUKUS, the add-on military power brought about by the two countries will make the alliance a new force capable of deterring many fields and may change the game in the Indo-Pacific region.
Armed forces of Military Region 1 step up mass mobilisation work under Uncle Ho’s teachings
Wednesday, April 17, 2024, 14:33 (GMT+7)
Being imbued with his teachings, Military Region 1’s armed forces have actively enhanced mass mobilisation via various synchronous, effective measures, thus contributing to improving the people’s material and mental life, consolidating the posture of all-people national defence associated with the posture of people’s security, and particularly building an increasingly firm “posture of people’s hearts and minds”