Monday, January 12, 2026, 11:49 (GMT+7)

Focusing on making Division 5 comprehensively strong and exemplary

Focusing on making Division 5 comprehensively strong and exemplary

Wednesday, November 26, 2025, 09:31 (GMT+7)
Throughout its 60-year history, the Division has overcome countless difficulties and hardships. More than 34,000 officers and soldiers laid down their lives for the Fatherland, while tens of thousands of war invalids and sick veterans sacrificed their youth, leaving part of their flesh and blood across the battlefields. In recognition of its outstanding service and achievements, the Division has been awarded the title of Hero of the People’s Armed Forces

Three breakthroughs in making the 550th Engineering Brigade a comprehensively strong, "exemplary and typical" unit

Three breakthroughs in making the 550th Engineering Brigade a comprehensively strong, “exemplary and typical” unit

Thursday, February 29, 2024, 07:10 (GMT+7)
Along with prioritising the building of a politically, ideologically, and organisationally strong unit, fostering internal solidarity and unity and promoting the pioneering of officers, the Brigade has intensified the three breakthroughs, namely enhancing the quality of training, intensifying regularity building and discipline management, and ensuring adequate logistics and technical support for tasks.

Effectiveness of legal dissemination and education, discipline management and maintenance in Brigade 242

Effectiveness of legal dissemination and education, discipline management and maintenance in Brigade 242

Monday, October 23, 2023, 15:16 (GMT+7)
Despite the vast operational areas, both on land and at sea, uneven awareness of service members, the complicated occurrences of social evils, etc., the cadres and soldiers of the Brigade have consistently heightened their sense of responsibility, self-discipline, and strict compliance with the State’s laws and the military regulations to significantly contribute to the building of an all-strong, “exemplary and typical” units and constant readiness to accept and accomplish all assigned tasks.

Division 9 improves the overall quality and combat strength

Division 9 improves the overall quality and combat strength

Saturday, July 29, 2023, 13:10 (GMT+7)
Presently, the duty of protecting the Homeland, building the Army and Division has set high requirements. Hostile forces have speeded up their fierce sabotage of the Party, State and Army. The political security and social order in the area, natural disasters and diseases have become more complicated. The Army and Corps have enhanced the implementation of resolutions and plans on restructuring the staff towards the “elite, compact and strong” way; the Division’s duties have defined new and higher requirements, etc. As a result, in order to successfully accomplish the tasks in the coming time, the Division’s Party Committee and Command have defined to continuously lead and direct the synchronous implementation of guidelines and solutions for improving the overall quality and combat strength.

Brigade 172 strengthens legal dissemination and education

Brigade 172 strengthens legal dissemination and education

Wednesday, June 29, 2022, 06:55 (GMT+7)
To complete the assigned tasks, the Brigade focus on leading and directing the implementation of all aspects of work, in which, legal dissemination and education is identified as an important solution to raise awareness and adjust observance of law and military discipline of officers and soldiers.

Division 315 prevents and repels serious violations of law and discipline

Division 315 prevents and repels serious violations of law and discipline

Tuesday, May 18, 2021, 08:14 (GMT+7)
The Division 315’s Party Committee and Command have focused their leadership and direction on preventing and repelling the risk of violating law and discipline via many drastic, creative, practical, effective measures as the forefront of the “three breakthroughs”

Division 390’s experiences in managing and training reservists

Division 390’s experiences in managing and training reservists

Monday, September 14, 2020, 14:18 (GMT+7)
The Division 390 (formerly known as the Division 320B) under the Army Corps 1 is tasked with managing and training reservists in the area of Thanh Hoa province and performing several other missions. Over the years, the Division has been built into an exemplary, comprehensively strong cadres-based unit; hence, more investments have been made in upgrading its barracks and training grounds, which has created a favourable condition for its mission performance

Signal Brigade 604 builds a "typical and exemplary" comprehensively strong model unit

Signal Brigade 604 builds a “typical and exemplary” comprehensively strong model unit

Friday, November 15, 2019, 19:43 (GMT+7)
Fully aware that it was an important basis and motivation for the Brigade to reach a new height, the Brigade’s Party Committee has introduced a resolution in order to successfully accomplish this important task. The commanders of the Brigade and its affiliates have developed plans to realize the resolution with specific targets and measures so as to ensure high feasibility

Dien Bien provincial armed forces concentrate on making themselves comprehensively strong

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

Raising the effectiveness of legal dissemination and education for the military youth

Raising the effectiveness of legal dissemination and education for the military youth

Monday, May 20, 2019, 14:17 (GMT+7)
Legal education for the military youth is of importance to building their way of living and working under the law and military discipline and giving impetus to their self-improvement to deserve to be the vanguard in the performance of the tasks. Thus, enhancing the effectiveness of legal dissemination and education for the military youth is a matter of importance

Ten major global military and defence events in 2025
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