Main trends in international relations today
Thursday, March 28, 2024, 16:21 (GMT+7)
It is said that at present and in the coming years, there are emerging global challenges and risks that no single country can resolve. These include, climate change, natural disasters, international terrorism, energy crisis, food crisis, transnational crime, cybersecurity, food security, market security, monetary security, intellectual property security, educational security, cultural security, health security, etc. Therefore, more than ever, countries around the world should strengthen cooperation to resolve these challenges and risks.
The Party’s Perspective on implementing the Strategy for Homeland protection in the new situation
Saturday, February 17, 2024, 07:26 (GMT+7)
The issuance of the new Strategy for Homeland protection by our Party is highly necessary, meeting the requirements of practical development, and addressing the timely leadership, guidance, and a significant transformation in the awareness, responsibility, and actions of the entire Party, people, and armed forces. This aims to harness the collective strength towards the cause of protecting the Motherland—one of the two strategic tasks of the Vietnamese revolution.
Continued enhancement of the military’s overall quality and combat power
Thursday, October 12, 2023, 15:07 (GMT+7)
In the coming time, the world and region are likely to witness rapid, complex, and unforeseeable developments. Strategic competition among major powers, local conflicts, sovereign and territorial disputes in certain regions, development and application of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), and nontraditional security challenges have been exerting impacts on the cause of safeguarding the Fatherland of our people. The situation requires the entire military to further promote solidarity and unity, bring into play proactiveness and creativeness, and work out many measures to increase comprehensive quality and combat power in order to meet requirement of defending the Fatherland in the new circumstance.
The Navy improves the quality of coordination in sea and island propaganda
Tuesday, January 31, 2023, 08:47 (GMT+7)
Currently, the global and regional situation in general, and in the seas, including the East Sea in particular, is supposed to be complicated and unpredictable; strategic competition between major powers and territorial disputes in this region continue to escalate with increasing tension. The task of protecting the sovereignty over seas and islands has placed high demands on sea and island propaganda. Being the core force in performing this task, the Navy identifies improving the quality of sea and island propaganda as the key content that needs the leadership and direction of all-level party committees and organisations with synchronous and effective measures.
Top 10 international defence and military events in 2022
Friday, January 27, 2023, 09:12 (GMT+7)
In 2022, the world continued to witness a volatile panorama with dark and light colours interwoven. Strategic competition among major powers, local conflicts, boundary and territorial disputes, arms races, etc. happened in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic being controlled, yet its aftermaths still affect many countries.
Continue to innovate and enhance the quality and effectiveness of ideological work within the Army in the new period
Tuesday, January 10, 2023, 15:28 (GMT+7)
In the new situation, due to the requirements and tasks of building a compact, lean, and powerful Army, it is necessary to innovate and enhance the quality and effectiveness of ideological work in the entire Army. Party committees, commanders, commissars, and political agencies at all levels must attach much importance to leading, directing and implementing ideological work to build the Army with political strength, absolute loyalty to the Fatherland, the Party, the State, the People, and the Socialism to victoriously accomplish all assigned tasks.
Theoretical and practical breakthroughs in the Fatherland protection under the Resolution of the 8th Plenum of the Party Central Committee (11th tenure)
Sunday, September 18, 2022, 06:50 (GMT+7)
In the new condition, it is necessary to assert that people’s war for the Fatherland protection is still an effective method to deal with new-style and hi-tech wars; modern weapons and equipment are important, but human being are the determinants. Hence, great weight should be added to making cadres and soldiers of the armed forces politically strong and capable of exploiting and mastering science, technology, and modern materiel.
Enhancing VPA’s participation in the UN peacekeeping operations
Friday, September 16, 2022, 22:00 (GMT+7)
Vietnam’s UN peacekeeping operations have left international friends with a strong impression of the images of the country and Vietnamese people as well as the noble quality of “Uncle Ho’s Soldiers”. These vital and significant operations have represented a peace-loving and humane country that willingly participates in tackling issues encountered by the international community to safeguard the Fatherland “early and from afar” through peaceful solutions.
Enhancing VPA’s participation in the UN peacekeeping operations
Thursday, September 15, 2022, 19:37 (GMT+7)
Vietnam’s UN peacekeeping operations have left international friends with a strong impression of the images of the country and Vietnamese people as well as the noble quality of “Uncle Ho’s Soldiers”. These vital and significant operations have represented a peace-loving and humane country that willingly participates in tackling issues encountered by the international community to safeguard the Fatherland “early and from afar” through peaceful solutions.
Misinterpreting Vietnam’s policy of military modernisation – an unacceptable activity
Thursday, December 23, 2021, 09:05 (GMT+7)
Vietnam’s policy of military modernisation is objective, in line with the peaceful and self-defensive nature of the country’s national defence and socio-economic conditions; at the same time, it is the foundation for improving the overall quality and combat power of the Army. A cunning trick of hostile forces is to distort this policy, aiming at "de-politicising" the Army and building a "professional army" - it should be resolutely rejected