Upholding the 80-year heroic tradition of a strategic command and staff organ to make General Staff strong and capable of its missions
Saturday, September 06, 2025, 22:43 (GMT+7)
In the past 80 years of construction, combat, victory, and maturity, under the leadership and direction of the Party Central Committee and President Ho Chi Minh, particularly the Central Military Commission and the Ministry of National Defence, the General Staff has always excellently fulfilled its role as a strategic, confidential, key staff organ of the Vietnam People’s Army, making a worthy contribution to the cause of national liberation, construction, and protection
The art of creating and transforming the battlefield in Loc Ninh Offensive of 1967
Thursday, August 28, 2025, 15:20 (GMT+7)
In Loc Ninh Campaign, despite facing US and Saigon regime units, the armed forces of the (South) Eastern Regional Command displayed remarkable flexibility in shaping and shifting the battlefield. Time and again our armed forces launched attacks with deadly effect, forcing the enemy onto the defensive, leaving them bewildered and struggling to respond. This created the condition needed for our armed forces and people to prepare for 1968 Spring General Offensive and Uprising
Commando College enhances education, training quality
Monday, June 27, 2022, 15:50 (GMT+7)
The College Party Committee and Board of Directors request their departments, faculties, and units to deeply perceive and strictly realise higher echelons’ resolutions and directives regarding Party building. Attention is paid to ideological work and priorities are given to implementation of the Conclusion No. 01-KL/TW of the Politburo (13th tenure) on further stepping up studying and following Ho Chi Minh’s ideology, morality, and style as well as the CMC’s Resolution No. 847-NQ/QUTW on bringing into play fine quality of “Uncle Ho’s Soldiers” to combat individualism in the new situation
Combining local people’s warfare with main corps’ operations during the resistance war against the U.S.
Tuesday, July 20, 2021, 07:28 (GMT+7)
Our people’s resistance war against U.S., for national salvation provides us with many valuable lessons on military strategies and campaign-level, tactical arts, amongst which combining local people’s warfare with main corps’ operations is a typical example that should continue to be further studied, developed and applied to the war to defend the Homeland (if it occurred)
"Vietnamese modern poetry only has New Poetry and Young Poetry" - an absurd argument must be rejected
Monday, December 14, 2020, 06:55 (GMT+7)
In recent times, some people have stated that “Vietnamese modern poetry only has New Poetry and Young Poetry,” insisting that the poetry during the resistance wars against French colonialists and American imperialists was merely “illustrative” and “rustic.” These are not only an unfounded argument but also a worrying deviation as the result of “peaceful evolution” or “self-evolution,” which must be identified and excluded from cultural and social life
Logistics operations in the 1968 Spring General Offensive and Uprising applied and developed
Tuesday, January 30, 2018, 11:41 (GMT+7)
During the 1968 Spring General Offensive and Uprising, our military and people, especially logistics branch, closely followed the strategic plan, overcame many difficulties to secretly and proactively prepare and conduct logistic operations to support our fighting forces across the South, contributing to the victory of the whole campaign. The experience gained from these logistics operations is still very valuable for today
Applying experience from the 1968 Spring General Offensive and Uprising to the building of political base in Danang
Friday, January 26, 2018, 16:50 (GMT+7)
Spring 1968, under the guidance of the Politburo, 5th Regional Party Committee’s Standing Board decided to choose Danang to be the main area of operation in the upcoming General Offensive and Uprising. That said, Danang Special Zone Party Committee introduced Quang Trung Resolution (the name implied that the offensive would be swift like Quang Trung’s strikes) to its subordinate units
The Party and President Ho Chi Minh’s clear-headed strategic direction during the 1968 Spring General Offensive and Uprising
Wednesday, January 24, 2018, 09:27 (GMT+7)
In our people’s resistance war against the U.S. imperialists, for national salvation, there were resounding victories as turning points demonstrating the Party and President Ho Chi Minh’s clear-headed strategic guidance. Among which, the 1968 Spring General Offensive and Uprising was one of the most outstanding events
Promoting political and spiritual factors in the first-battle victory to raise armor troops’ political will today
Thursday, January 18, 2018, 21:34 (GMT+7)
The victory of Ta May – Lang Vay went down in history as a brilliant milestone, establishing and laying the foundation for the Armor soldiers’ tradition of "winning victory whenever being deployed”. The victory was not only a confirmation of political and spiritual will of previous generations but also a pride as well as a strong motivation for the improvement of the Armor soldiers’ political will at present
The 1968 Spring General Offensive and Uprising – the unity of people’s will and the Party’s commitment
Monday, January 15, 2018, 21:23 (GMT+7)
From mid-1965, after its strategy of “special warfare” was basically defeated, the U.S. leadership had to shift its policy to “local warfare” with the deployment of massive U.S. expeditionary forces into South Vietnam. In this new phase of the war, U.S Command combined “search and destroy” actions with “rural pacification” activities and declared that the People’s Liberation Armed Forces of South Vietnam would be completely annihilated in just 18 months