Experiences in raising training and combat readiness quality at Mechanised Infantry Division 308
Tuesday, October 14, 2025, 18:24 (GMT+7)
The Division’s Party Committee and Command have focused their leadership and direction on taking various synchronised, drastic measures to improve the performance of this routine, central political mission as the basis for raising the Division’s synergy and combat strength. There have been many reforms in training and combat readiness work; targets of training work have all been excellently fulfilled; the Division has gained the title of “Good Training Unit” for many consecutive years
Breakthrough development in our operational art during the Border Campaign of 1950
Friday, September 19, 2025, 08:26 (GMT+7)
Under the leadership of the Party Central Committee and President Ho Chi Minh, our armed forces and people launched the Border Campaign - the first large-scale combined-arms offensive campaign of the Vietnam People’s Army (VPA) - and achieved a resounding victory. The success of the Campaign not only affirmed our VPA’s growing strength, but also marked a breakthrough in the art of offensive operations during the resistance war against French colonialism
Quartermaster branch enhances work quality to meet mission requirements in the new situation
Tuesday, May 27, 2025, 05:10 (GMT+7)
Being inspired by President Ho Chi Minh’s belief that “Adequate supplies make a strong army,” the officers, staff, and soldiers of the Quartermaster branch remain determined to enhance their work quality, fulfill their functions and duties in the new context, and contribute to building a lean, strong, modern Army capable of defending the nation under all circumstances.
Political - spiritual factor in the 1975 strategic offensive and the building of a politically strong Army in the new situation
Friday, April 25, 2025, 10:05 (GMT+7)
Victory of the resistance war against the US for national salvation in general, the 1975 Spring General Offensive and Uprising in particular was a combination of many factors in which the political - spiritual factor played a role of special importance, acting as a deep-rooted source pervasive within the heart and mind of our entire people and VPA, connecting, gathering, and maximising other factors
Army Corps 12 builds a strong Logistics - Technical Sector
Friday, January 17, 2025, 16:17 (GMT+7)
The Logistics - Technical Department’s Party Committee and Command have advised the Corps’ Party Committee and Command on various measures to rearrange the logistics - technical force at all levels. At the same time, they have performed support work comprehensively with determination to maintain and raise the quality of logistics - technical support, resolutely preventing this work from being impacted by the process of force adjustment
Division 308 raises the quality and effectiveness of legal dissemination and education
Monday, August 26, 2024, 10:44 (GMT+7)
With its “adept, compact, strong” organisational structure, Division 308 under Army Corps 12 has been orientated towards modernity under the 13th Politburo’s 05-NQ/TW dated 17 January 2022 and the Central Military Commission’s Resolution 230-NQ/QUTW dated 2 April 2022. Due to the development of its tasks, the Division has experienced an increase in the size of its workforce, which has imposed higher, more comprehensive, and more complex requirements on its training, combat readiness, human and material management, and other pieces of work
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.
French generals’ admission of defeat in Dien Bien Phu
Wednesday, May 08, 2024, 07:08 (GMT+7)
The battle of 1954 Dien Bien Phu took place 70 years ago, about which there have been a lot of books and articles by foreign generals, politicians, scholars and journalists. People around the world continue to wonder why Vietnam, a small, poor, low-tech country which had just successfully carried out the August Revolution with its nascent army, was able to defeat French colonialists. In order to answer this question, the article will briefly relate admissions by French generals who joined the war in Indochina in general, the battle of Dien Bien Phu in particular
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.
A distinct demonstration of the art of encirclement in Route 9 - Khe Sanh Campaign of 1968
Monday, July 31, 2023, 15:11 (GMT+7)
Over half a century ago, to realise a strategic diversion action in preparation for the General Offensive and Uprising of 1968 throughout the South, we launched a large-scale combined arms offensive campaign at the Khe Sanh - Route 9 and achieved a great victory. The Campaign left behind valuable experiences in military art, among which the distinct feature was the art of encircling and cutting off the enemy.