Building a cultural environment within grass-roots military units: key issues and solutions
Tuesday, April 14, 2026, 16:06 (GMT+7)
Within the VPA, the cultural environment plays a crucial role as the direct milieu for nurturing and fostering political willpower, ethical qualities, regular lifestyle, disciplinary spirit, conduct, and responsibilities of revolutionary soldiers. A rich and healthy cultural environment also directly contributes to maintaining and strengthening internal unity and military - civilian solidarity, as well as improving the training quality, combat readiness, and task performance of a unit
NATO strengthens defence industrial cooperation
Thursday, December 11, 2025, 10:07 (GMT+7)
Strengthening cooperation in the defence industry is one of the key priorities emphasised at the NATO Summit held in the Netherlands in June 2025, aimed at enhancing the Alliance’s collective defence capabilities, unity, and long-term sustainability. The context, achievements, difficulties, challenges, and emerging cooperation trends in this field within NATO are what have drawn significant international attention
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
Building an adept, compact, strong, modern Air Defence - Air Force Service
Tuesday, September 30, 2025, 13:14 (GMT+7)
Building the Air Defence - Air Force Service straight to modernity is a strategic guideline, reflecting the close attention of the Party, State, Central Military Commission, and Ministry of National Defence. Fully aware of its great honour, the Air Defence - Air Force Service has been focusing its leadership and direction on realising this crucial goal through resolute and synchronised measures
Arctic in the new vortex of strategic competition
Thursday, August 07, 2025, 19:24 (GMT+7)
International public opinion believes that, with what has been and is happening, the Arctic is no longer a cold land outside the geopolitical and geo-economic calculations of countries in and outside the region, but has become the focus of new strategic competition among superpowers. However, international public opinion also hopes that this competition will not adversely affect world and regional security and peace.
An overview of the European Union’s new defence strategy and its implications for regional and international security
Friday, May 16, 2025, 15:29 (GMT+7)
In the face of rapid, complex, unpredictable developments throughout the world and in the region, numerous European Union (EU) senior officials have stated that it is time for the EU to act more decisively and proactively. Accordingly, on 19th March 2025, the EU unveiled a new Defence Strategy aimed at enhancing its security autonomy, maintaining regional stability, and safeguarding its core interests
Division 363 raises its combat power to firmly protect the Fatherland’s airspace
Friday, May 16, 2025, 15:29 (GMT+7)
In response to the high requirements of Fatherland protection, cadres and soldiers of Division 363 (Air Defence - Air Force Service) have promoted the unit’s heroic tradition, unceasingly improving their political zeal, mastering weaponry, raising combat readiness and resolve to firmly protect the Fatherland’s Northeastern airspace
Development trends of India's Defence Industry
Wednesday, February 19, 2025, 09:03 (GMT+7)
In recent years, defence cooperation has increasingly emerged as a key pillar in India's strategic relations with foreign governments. Accordingly, India expects to integrate its defence industry with the global market through supply chain workshops with leading foreign OEMs or facilitate direct interactions with foreign governments and armed forces.
10 Major Global Military and Defence Events of 2024
Thursday, January 09, 2025, 10:06 (GMT+7)
In 2024, the global landscape witnessed unprecedented complexity and unpredictability, marked by intensifying strategic competition among major powers and escalating military conflicts across various regions. These developments further destabilised an already volatile global security environment. To provide a comprehensive overview of the global security landscape, the National Defence Journal presents a roundup of the 10 most significant military and defence events
Adjustments in Canada's new defence policy
Wednesday, December 25, 2024, 07:36 (GMT+7)
For Canada, the potential in the Arctic not only promises to bring huge economic benefits, but also helps the country strengthen its strategic position in the region. This is the great driving force behind the Canadian government's adjustment of its defence policy.