An overview of Japan’s defence equipment modernisation trends
Monday, October 27, 2025, 16:17 (GMT+7)
Amid growing complexities in the global and regional security environment, Japan has been accelerating the modernisation of Japan Self-Defence Forces (JSDF) through a series of crucial steps. With the adoption of new national security and defence strategies, along with a significant increase in defence investment, Japan’s defence equipment modernisation is reshaping the regional military balance, which has drawn considerable attention from military analysts
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
The art of creating and transforming the battlefield in Loc Ninh Offensive of 1967
Thursday, August 28, 2025, 15:20 (GMT+7)
In Loc Ninh Campaign, despite facing US and Saigon regime units, the armed forces of the (South) Eastern Regional Command displayed remarkable flexibility in shaping and shifting the battlefield. Time and again our armed forces launched attacks with deadly effect, forcing the enemy onto the defensive, leaving them bewildered and struggling to respond. This created the condition needed for our armed forces and people to prepare for 1968 Spring General Offensive and Uprising
Several issues regarding chemical defence in strategic defensive operations on Northern theatre
Thursday, July 24, 2025, 19:37 (GMT+7)
Chemical defence in strategic defensive operations on Northern theatre during a war to defend the Fatherland is a critically important aspect of support work. It aims to minimise the destructive impacts of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), maintain the combat capability of the armed forces, and ensure the safety of the population. This is an extremely difficult and complex task that must be thoroughly studied and prepared in peacetime
Operational coordination between the mobile and local forces in decisive battles of counteroffensive campaigns in the war to safeguard the Fatherland
Friday, July 18, 2025, 23:11 (GMT+7)
Operational coordination between mobile and local forces in decisive battles of counteroffensive campaigns is a matter of military art, constantly evolving and developing. Therefore, it is essential to continue researching, supplementing, and refining the theoretical foundation of this coordination to align with requirements of people’s warfare to safeguard the Fatherland in new conditions.
Organisation of artillery firepower to counter strategic airborne landings in strategic defensive operations
Monday, June 30, 2025, 13:41 (GMT+7)
Organising artillery firepower scientifically, rationally, creatively, and effectively plays a decisive role in successfully defeating enemy strategic airborne landings in strategic defensive operations. This is a continuously evolving aspect of operational art that requires further study and refinement in terms of both theory and practice.
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 trend of modernising infantry weapons and equipment in Asia-Pacific
Tuesday, May 27, 2025, 05:10 (GMT+7)
Modernising infantry weapons and equipment by countries in the Asia Pacific region is a complex and multifaceted process. Although this process may help them better protect their interests, it still has potential factors boosting an increasing tension and a possibility of an arms race in the region.
From the roles of main forces in Ho Chi Minh Campaign to building “elite, compact, strong” corps today
Friday, April 25, 2025, 10:05 (GMT+7)
The victory of Ho Chi Minh Campaign is a pinnacle of Vietnamese military art of people’s war. It confirms the pivotal roles of the main corps, which are considered as core forces and “iron fists” in conducting primarily military attacks and massively destroying the enemies.
The Army and People of the Mekong Delta in the General Offensive and Uprising in Spring 1975
Thursday, April 10, 2025, 13:41 (GMT+7)
During the General Offensive and Uprising in Spring 1975, with the combined strength of the people’s war and a spirit of initiative and creativity, from 26 April 1975, most provinces in the Mekong Delta simultaneously launched offensives and uprisings against the enemy across all fronts, completely liberating their localities on 30 April 30 and 1 May 1975.