The distinctive art of force organisation and deployment in the Viet Bac Autumn-Winter Campaign 1947

Friday, May 30, 2025, 10:41 (GMT+7)
The victory of the Viet Bac Autumn - Winter Campaign 1947 created favourable conditions - both in terms of strength and strategic position - for the Vietnamese people’s resistance war to advance toward final triumph. The lessons in the art of force organisation and deployment from this campaign remain highly relevant and should continue to be studied, applied, and further developed in the ongoing cause of national defence.

The VPA and the task of building all-people national defence posture

Monday, December 16, 2019, 07:56 (GMT+7)
Imbued with the tradition of nation building and protection, in the Declaration of Independence on September 2nd, 1945, President Ho Chi Minh called on the entire Vietnamese people to determinedly mobilize all their physical and mental strength and sacrifice their lives and property in order to safeguard the national independence and liberty. That is the ideology and guideline on building the all-people national defence posture to protect the Fatherland. The Vietnam People’s Army (VPA) plays a pivotal role in this crucial task

Promoting the spirit of independence, self-reliance and determination to fight and win in the Dien Bien Phu Campaign for the sake of national construction and defense

Tuesday, May 07, 2019, 08:01 (GMT+7)
65 years have elapsed, yet the significance of and historic lessons from the Dien Bien Phu victory continue to reverberate through Vietnam, giving added impetus to the entire Party, people and military’s path to reform, international integration, development and the construction and defense of the socialist Vietnamese Fatherland

A milestone in the history of Vietnam

Saturday, May 04, 2019, 11:23 (GMT+7)
In response to President Ho Chi Minh’s Appeal for National Resistance (December 19th 1946), the entire Party, military and people went to a durable resistance war against the French Colonialists. Following the guidelines on all-people, comprehensive, long-lasting, self-reliant resistance war, with obsolete weapons and the spirit of “sacrificing for the Homeland”, our military and people defeated the French Colonialists’ military strategies one by one

Armed forces of the Military Region 1 implement Uncle Ho’s Appeal for Patriotic Emulation

Monday, June 11, 2018, 10:21 (GMT+7)
Promoting that tradition, armed forces of the Military Region 1 has been encouraging emulation movements to facilitate economic, cultural, social development, build strong all-people national defence, posture of all-people national defence, and defensive zone, contributing to maintaining national border sovereignty and security, deserving the confidence of the people nationwide

Commanding strategic combat operations in Viet Bac Campaign - Autumn and Winter 1947

Saturday, October 07, 2017, 11:04 (GMT+7)
Late 1947, one year after National Resistance Day, our people and military won a stunning victory over the French in Viet Bac campaign, destroyed their strategic plan of “rapid fighting for rapid victory”. French forces had to engage in prolonged combat, getting bogged down and eventually being defeated. This was the first strategic victory of our armed forces, giving us invaluable lessons, with the work of commanding strategic combat mission as among the most important ones