Building a modern Army - a sound policy and strategic vision of the Party
Wednesday, August 26, 2026, 15:28 (GMT+7)
Under the Party's clear-sighted leadership, with the people’s affection, care and support, and through the tireless efforts, dedication, and selfless sacrifice of successive generations of cadres and soldiers, our VPA has continuously grown in strength and maturity, excellently fulfilling every task entrusted to it by the Party, the State, and the people over the past more than 80 years
Applying the lesson of harnessing the strength of great national unity from the August Revolution to building a strong and modern all-people national defence
Tuesday, August 18, 2026, 15:31 (GMT+7)
More than 80 years after the victory of the August Revolution of 1945, the lesson of harnessing the strength of great national unity retains its full significance. In the new context, inheriting and creatively applying this historic lesson constitutes an objective requirement for building a strong and modern all-people national defence capable of meeting the requirements of safeguarding the Fatherland in the new situation.
Independence and self-reliance – The consistent foreign policy of our Party
Friday, June 12, 2026, 14:59 (GMT+7)
Independence, self-reliance, self-strengthening, peace, friendship, cooperation and development; is a consistent viewpoint of our Party in foreign relations. At the same time, it is also a message clearly expressing the spirit that Vietnam is a friend, a reliable partner, and a responsible member of the international community, serving the national interests and making active contributions to world peace, friendship, cooperation, and development.
The armed forces of Military Region 4, upholding their tradition, continue to write new feats of arms in the new era
Saturday, September 27, 2025, 14:11 (GMT+7)
During the 80-year journey of building, fighting and growing up, under the leadership of the Party, the armed forces of Military Region 4 have upheld revolutionary heroism, overcome countless difficulties and challenges, together with the army and people of the whole country to make glorious feats in the cause of national liberation, building and safeguarding the Fatherland.
Enhancing international integration and defence diplomacy under the Party’s foreign lines
Friday, December 13, 2024, 15:41 (GMT+7)
The Central Military Commission and the Ministry of National Defence have carried out the work of international integration and defence diplomacy synchronously, comprehensively, effectively, achieving many significant results. The VPA has actively, proactively given advice to the Party and State on dealing with strategic issues relating to military - defence tasks, security, and border protection, well managing defence relations with other countries, particularly our neighbours, major powers, and strategic partners
Vietnam’s military art and the requirements for its development in the new situation
Tuesday, July 30, 2024, 10:15 (GMT+7)
It must be affirmed that Vietnam’s military art is the one of the Vietnamese people’s war, combining traditional and modern elements. Vietnam’s military art emerged and gradually developed through the thousands of years of the nation’s struggle to build and safeguard the country.
Applying Ho Chi Minh’s thought on war rear to the cause of national building and protection today
Friday, July 19, 2024, 07:31 (GMT+7)
Throughout the course of the Vietnamese revolutionary leadership, especially during the resistance wars against French colonialists and American imperialists, as well as during the cause of building socialism in the North, President Ho Chi Minh placed great emphasis on the task of constructing and defending the rear, considering it one of the decisive factors for the victory of the struggle for national liberation, construction, and protection
Studying and applying the viewpoint “all-people, comprehensive resistance war” in Fatherland defence
Thursday, April 25, 2024, 14:13 (GMT+7)
The viewpoint “all-people, comprehensive resistance war” is the centrepiece of Ho Chi Minh’s military thought. The correct and creative application of this viewpoint in practice was one of the most fundamental factors that led to the great victories in the two resistance wars against French colonialists and US imperialists. In the event of a war to protect the Fatherland (if war is to occur), this viewpoint still retains its value and needs to be studied and applied effectively to practice
Promoting national “soft power” in the cause of national defence and protection of the Fatherland
Thursday, December 28, 2023, 10:51 (GMT+7)
Viet Nam always emphasises justice, great national unity, national independence and socialism, consistency of its strategic principles, flexibility in its stratagems, compliance with President Ho Chi Minh’s perspectives on acting flexibly while maintaining firmly his own principles, being a friend of all democratic countries, and having no desire to make an enemy of any countries. This is one of a fundamental source of “soft power,” together with other types of power, to make up the national overall power to firmly safeguard the socialist Vietnamese Fatherland.
On the fighting method of the armed forces of military regions in combined offensive operations
Saturday, April 29, 2023, 08:58 (GMT+7)
In a defensive war to protect the Motherland, with a highly developed people’s warfare posture, a combined offensive operation at the military-region level will be implemented right from the beginning and throughout the conflict. To successfully conduct this type of operation, it is necessary to study and address many issues of military art; in which the combat method is the key issue that needs to be thoroughly studied in both practice and theory.