Great Spring Victory and aspirations for national rise

Wednesday, April 23, 2025, 15:34 (GMT+7)
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

Great 1975 Spring Victory and the building of robust all-people national defence within Military Region 7

Thursday, April 17, 2025, 13:41 (GMT+7)
Over the years, under the Party’s military - defence lines, especially the Resolution of the Party Central Committee’s 8th Plenum (11th and 13th tenure) on the Strategy for Fatherland Protection in the New Situation as well as other resolutions and directives by the Central Military Commission and the Ministry of National Defence, Military Region 7 has focused its leadership and direction on building strong all-people national defence

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

The art of force utilisation in the Route 14 - Phuoc Long Offensive

Monday, February 24, 2025, 15:17 (GMT+7)
During the resistance war against US imperialists for national salvation, for the first time, through the Route 14 - Phuoc Long Offensive, we successfully liberated an entire key province located right next to Saigon. This victory resulted from the convergence of multiple factors in successfully executing a “strategic reconnaissance strike”, with the art of force utilisation being chief among them

Geopolitical upheaval in Syria and its impacts on regional and global security

Tuesday, February 11, 2025, 10:09 (GMT+7)
On 27 November 2024, the Syrian opposition - led primarily by the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham - launched a large-scale surprise offensive on areas under the control of the Syrian government. After more than ten days of fighting, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s leader, Muhammad al-Julani, declared the downfall of President Assad’s government

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.

Practical experience refutes distortion of “Vietnamese Bamboo Diplomacy”

Monday, July 22, 2024, 20:24 (GMT+7)
In recent years, the term “Vietnamese Bamboo Diplomacy” has been frequently mentioned when referring to the foreign activities of our Party and government. This term summarises and symbolises the foreign policy that the Communist Party of Vietnam has been persuing, based on President Ho Chi Minh’s diplomacy motto of “firm in objectives, flexible in strategies and tactics”.

Lý Dynasty combined military actions with diplomatic measures to end wars and establish peace

Wednesday, June 26, 2024, 08:52 (GMT+7)
Clearly grasping the enemy’s schemes, the Lý Dynasty proactively and shrewdly developed strategies to defend the nation, leveraged the strength of the entire populace, and implemented multiple measures simultaneously to swiftly end the war and establish peace, with the combination of military offensives and diplomatic measures being kept at the forefront

Evolution of military artistry in the Dien Bien Phu Campaign and contemporary issues of training operational and strategic-level cadres

Friday, May 10, 2024, 09:35 (GMT+7)
In the new revolutionary period, military training needs to focus on nurturing and continually improving comprehensive knowledge, with the central focus being on the military knowledge for the contingent of operational and strategic-level cadres. In combat, the challenge for operational and strategic-level cadres is the ability to assess the enemy situation, flexibility, logical thinking, keen judgment,... “thinking up schemes, devising strategies,” to gradually put the enemy into a passive position.

The art of force organisation and deployment in the 1954 Upper Laos Campaign

Saturday, March 30, 2024, 17:27 (GMT+7)
The victory of the 1954 Upper Laos Campaign played a significant role in establishing a favourable position for the Dien Bien Phu front to implement the “firm attack, firm progress” combat principle, achieving a victory “resounding across continents, shaking the world”. The distinctive art of force deployment drawn from the Campaign should continue to be studied and creatively applied in the current mission of national defence.