Quang Ninh Provincial Border Guard intensifies crime prevention and control
Tuesday, January 27, 2026, 19:53 (GMT+7)
The Provincial Border Guard Command has strengthened coordination with functional forces, proactively advised Party committees and authorities at all levels, mobilised all of its forces and resources, resolutely fought against crime of all types, contributing to ensuring political security and social order, maintaining peace in the border area, and creating conditions to promote socio-economic development.
On the U.S strategic weapon policy and implications on world security
Saturday, January 24, 2026, 09:17 (GMT+7)
International public opinion hopes that, in the context of major challenges, maintaining a peaceful and stable environment is more urgent than ever. The United States and other major powers should find a balanced solution soon which can both ensure their national security and prevent the world from a new arms race.
Military Region 2 builds a strong and modern all-people national defence
Tuesday, January 20, 2026, 14:56 (GMT+7)
The armed forces of MR2 continues to keep their leading role, together with the local party committees, governments and people in the Northwest to overcome all difficulties, stay united to build the strong and modern all-people national defence, contributing to firmly safeguarding the Fatherland in the new era of development.
Ten major global military and defence events in 2025
Thursday, January 08, 2026, 20:54 (GMT+7)
In 2025, the world continued to witness intense strategic competition among major powers, an increasing tendency to address issues through escalation and the use of force, along with prolonged and expanding military conflicts in many regions. Nevertheless, peace, cooperation, and development remain the major trends and shared goals. To provide a comprehensive overview, the National Defence Journal compiles and presents ten major military and defence events worldwide in 2025
Countering the rhetoric on “political pluralism and multiparty system” - viewed from the 80-year practice of the National Assembly of Vietnam
Wednesday, January 07, 2026, 06:57 (GMT+7)
The National Assembly (NA) of Vietnam is a legislative body through which the people exercise their right to mastery, greatly contributing to guiding the country towards the goal of national independence and socialism. The multi-dimensional achievements attained by the NA over the past 80 years have refuted all arguments of hostile forces aimed at espousing “political pluralism and multiparty system” and undermining the role and prestige of our NA and political system
Overview of the global political and military landscape in 2025
Wednesday, December 31, 2025, 14:15 (GMT+7)
The most prominent features of the global political and military landscape in 2025 are the irreversible trend towards multipolarity of the world order and intense competition among major powers. Besides, worrying developments from the conflicts of Russia-Ukraine, Israel-Iran, India-Pakistan, etc., and the risk of US military intervention in Venezuela are posing significant challenges to global security and stability.
Building a modern Vietnam People’s Army in the new revolutionary period
Thursday, December 11, 2025, 21:28 (GMT+7)
Building a modern Viet Nam People’s Army is an inevitable requirement of national construction and defence in the new development era. With the foundations already laid and the opportunities presented by this era, we can firmly believe that Viet Nam will succeed in building a modern People’s Army. This is the confidence, hope, and pride the whole nation places upon an army from the people, of the people, and by the people.
Strategic competition among major powers in the Asia-Pacific region and implications for ASEAN
Monday, November 24, 2025, 15:14 (GMT+7)
According to international observers, the formation of the US-led sub-multilateral security mechanisms QUAD, AUKUS, and other "trilateral, quadrilateral" security cooperation mechanisms can increase the risk of US-China confrontation and affect ASEAN's centrality in the regional security structure as shown through ARF, ADMM, ADMM+, etc. The risk of "securitising" cooperation areas will increase with the increasing momentum of strategic competition between major powers.
The emergence of a new strategic order in the Middle East
Thursday, November 20, 2025, 10:19 (GMT+7)
Recently, the political and security situation in the Middle East has become increasingly complex, leading to a significant change in the region’s strategic order. This transformation is not simply a return to “the old order” or “a unipolar system”, but rather a shift towards a new and more complex strategic order
Organising technical work in the armed forces of several countries around the world and lessons for Vietnam People’s Army
Sunday, November 09, 2025, 10:22 (GMT+7)
At present, the rapid development of military science and technology has turned technical work into one of the deciding factors in the combat power of modern armed forces. Hence, studying experiences in organising technical work in the armed forces of several countries around the world is of great importance to the development of technical work of the Vietnam People’s Army nowadays