Dien Bien Phu Victory and the lessons for the cause of building a strong national defence

Friday, May 10, 2024, 09:30 (GMT+7)
Nowadays, to enhance the robust development of national defence capabilities and establish a solid foundation for the comprehensive, whole people, independent, self-reliant, and modern national defence, we must build and leverage the comprehensive strength of the country across all military, political, ideological, economic, cultural, social, security, diplomatic, science and technology domains, combining the national strength with power of the era.

Improving the capacity to respond to non-traditional security challenges in line with the Party’s viewpoint of Fatherland protection

Wednesday, January 31, 2024, 11:40 (GMT+7)
Non-traditional security challenges have, actually, been happening at different degrees and scales and greatly affected all aspects of social life, including defence and security sectors in the theatres of air, land, sea, cyberspace,... When those impacts cannot be controlled or handled ineffectively, they will cause defence risks. The risks caused by non-traditional security threats directly or indirectly will reduce defence potential and strength, destabilise the country's political security and may lead to conflicts and wars. Therefore, preventing, responding to, and repelling non-traditional security challenges has become an important task in the cause of Fatherland protection today.

Building a strong National Defence Academy on a par with military modernisation

Saturday, December 16, 2023, 19:55 (GMT+7)
The academy attaches importance to development of a corps of lecturers, education management cadres, and scientific researchers with sufficient quantity and quality on a par with requirements and missions. Education, training, and scientific research are regularly reformed to improve quality. The academy successfully completes training programmes for both domestic and international learners as provided by plans for each year and course, which contributes not only to the building of a high-quality human resource for the VPA but also increased state management of national defence and security and strengthening of military, defence power, and protection of the Fatherland.

Some issues on unconventional warfare nowadays

Wednesday, July 19, 2023, 17:59 (GMT+7)
Unconventional warfare is a form  of warfare that has been conducted by the US and Western countries against certain nations that oppose or are hostile to them, especially the socialist ones. Therefore, understanding its nature and ways of conducting operation to develop effective preventive and countermeasures is an important issue.

On the fighting method of the armed forces of military regions in combined offensive operations

Saturday, April 29, 2023, 08:58 (GMT+7)
In a defensive war to protect the Motherland, with a highly developed people’s warfare posture, a combined offensive operation at the military-region level will be implemented right from the beginning and throughout the conflict. To successfully conduct this type of operation, it is necessary to study and address many issues of military art; in which the combat method is the key issue that needs to be thoroughly studied in both practice and theory.

Fighting against political riots and secession in the Central Highlands

Sunday, May 22, 2022, 14:56 (GMT+7)
it is necessary to focus on renovating the Party's leadership methods and improving the quality, effectiveness, and efficiency of management and administration of local authorities to meet the requirements and tasks of socio-economic development and national defence and security reinforcement in the localities.

Several solutions for developing Vietnam’s marine and coastal economy

Friday, January 28, 2022, 07:56 (GMT+7)
In order to turn Vietnam into a marine powerhouse, under its Resolution 26/NQ-CP, dated March 5th, 2020, the Government has formulated a plan towards 2025 for developing the country’s marine and coastal economy, with a focus on the following fields

The 2nd Corps enhances combat strength

Monday, July 13, 2020, 10:20 (GMT+7)
Thoroughly grasping the Party’s viewpoints and guidelines on defence, military and Fatherland protection and its assigned tasks, over the past years, the Party Committee and Headquarters of the 2nd Corps have thoroughly deployed all of its tasks, focusing on implementing the breakthroughs to improve the overall quality and combat strength.

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

Issues on unconventional warfare

Friday, October 30, 2015, 15:09 (GMT+7)
Unconventional warfare is a new form of warfare that has been used by the U.S. and the West to topple governments of a number of countries not following their “orbit”