Military Region 1’s armed forces improve their synergy and combat strength

Tuesday, October 14, 2025, 18:24 (GMT+7)
Improving the synergy and combat power to enable the armed forces to readily undertake any missions represents the highest goal and consistent line set by Military Region 1’s Party Committee and Command. To that end, the Military Region’s Party Committee and Command have focused their leadership and direction on drastically taking various measures

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

President Ho Chi Minh - a man of great virtue, wisdom, and courage

Thursday, May 15, 2025, 13:11 (GMT+7)
As a man of great virtue, Ho Chi Minh was full of compassion, patriotism, and love for the people. His devotion to the nation, to his compatriots, and to oppressed people around the world was deep and unwavering. He sincerely cared for and wholeheartedly supported his comrades and fellow citizens, while firmly opposing any thoughts or actions that could harm the Party and the people

Vietnamese Volunteer Soldiers - the core component of the Vietnam - Laos combat alliance

Tuesday, October 29, 2024, 16:23 (GMT+7)
On 30 October 1949, the Standing Board of the Indochinese Communist Party Central Committee decided: “Vietnamese military forces will fight and work to help Laos establish their own system and will be organised as Volunteer Soldiers”. Under the leadership of our Party and President Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese Volunteer Soldiers excellently fulfilled their task of giving assistance to the Lao revolution, worthy of the cornerstone of the Vietnam - Laos combat alliance

General Le Trong Tan’s remarkable contributions to Vietnam’s military art

Friday, October 04, 2024, 16:10 (GMT+7)
Holding various commanding positions from tactical and operational to strategic levels, commanding almost all campaigns and decisive strategic operations in the two resistance wars against the US and the French as well as in the war to defend the Southwestern border, he made significant contributions to the development of Vietnam’s unique, creative military art and our nation’s victory against the most powerful imperialists of the 20th century

Inter-zone 5 with Dien Bien Phu Campaign

Tuesday, May 07, 2024, 10:04 (GMT+7)
Inter-zone 5 coordinated closely with the main battlefield Dien Bien Phu and other strategic directions, dispersing the French troops, restraining them and making them unable to support each other. Each battlefield was reciprocal to the other by their “fire-sharing” roles. Together they contained the enemies, preventing them from supporting each other. People and troops of both battlefields emulated to destroy the enemies and gain victories. This was one of the main causes to the French defeat in Dien Bien Phu.

The 75-year-old heroic Vietnam People’s Army remains steadfast in the Party’s leadership

Saturday, December 21, 2019, 17:20 (GMT+7)
On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the All-People National Defence Festive Day (December 22nd 1989 - December 22nd 2019) and the 75th founding anniversary of the Vietnam People’s Army (December 22nd 1944 - December 22nd 2019), the National Defence Journal would like to introduce an important article by comrade Nguyen Phu Trong, Chief of the Communist Party of Vietnam, President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Secretary of the Central Military Commission

The Geneva Accords of 1954 and lessons on the art of securing the victory step by step

Friday, July 19, 2019, 13:56 (GMT+7)
Assessing the results of the Geneva Conference (1954) on Indochina, most of scholars from many countries agreed that it had been a victory of Vietnam and a success of its strategy to achieve the victory step by step in the war for national liberation

Dien Bien provincial armed forces concentrate on making themselves comprehensively strong

Wednesday, July 10, 2019, 13:18 (GMT+7)
On 12th July, 1949, Lai Chau propagation armed Group No.1 was established (the predecessor of present-day Dien Bien provincial armed forces) in response to the Party’s policy on ramping up the people’s armed forces to meet the urgent requirements of the resistance war against the French colonialists

The rear and logistics support in Dien Bien Phu Campaign and current issues

Wednesday, May 08, 2019, 20:50 (GMT+7)
In Dien Bien Phu Campaign, being united and creative, our army and people overcame all difficulties and hardships to provide sufficient human and material resources, making a great contribution to the victory that “resounded throughout the five continents and shook the world”. The lesson about the rear and logistics support in Dien Bien Phu Campaign requires ongoing research and development in the current cause of national construction and defense