The art of conducting the opening engagement in North Binh Dinh Campaign of 1966
Friday, January 23, 2026, 08:28 (GMT+7)
In the North Binh Dinh counter-offensive Campaign, despite facing elite US forces, through the excellent execution of the opening engagement, we successfully created a major breakthrough and drove the Campaign to complete victory. This contributed to the defeat of the enemy’s First Dry-Season Strategic Counter-Offensive Plan on the Southern battlefield
The art of force organisation and employment in Hiep Duc - Dong Duong Operation of 1965
Monday, December 29, 2025, 14:11 (GMT+7)
Sixty years ago, during Hiep Duc - Dong Duong Operation, our forces, through a distinctive art of organising and employing combat units, dealt successive “critical, heavy” blows against the enemy’s elite formations operating in the adjacent zone between mountainous and coastal lowland areas of Military Region 5. The success of the Operation marked a new development in the overall strategic offensive posture and gave strong impetus to the movement among our armed forces and people to “seek out to fight American troops, seek out to destroy puppet troops”
On assurance of communications for deception, posture creation, and manoeuvre in the deployment of forces to counter enemy airborne landings in strategic defensive operations
Friday, December 26, 2025, 20:07 (GMT+7)
As the “lifeblood” of the battlefield, communications assurance in operations to counter strategic airborne landings in general, and in deception, posture creation, and manoeuvring deployment of forces in particular, plays a decisive role in all battlefield activities and in determining combat outcomes.
Division 312 focuses on improving combat strength
Friday, December 26, 2025, 13:14 (GMT+7)
Upholding the “Determined to fight, determined to win” flag presented by beloved Uncle Ho, officers and soldiers of the Division today are determined to overcome all difficulties, stay united, make more effort in training, and try to constantly improve its overall quality, combat strength to make it an “elite and modern” division, meeting the requirements and tasks of Fatherland defence in the new situation./.
The art of fighting the opening key battle in the Bau Bang - Dau Tieng Campaign of 1965
Tuesday, November 18, 2025, 21:24 (GMT+7)
The success of the Bau Bang - Dau Tieng Campaign dealt a severe blow to U.S. and Saigon efforts under the “Local War” strategy. The lessons in the art of conducting an opening key battle remain invaluable for continued research and creative application in the defence of the Fatherland.
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
Global trends in military technology and implications for building a modern army
Monday, September 22, 2025, 19:23 (GMT+7)
Keeping abreast of global trends in military technology and undertaking comprehensive and precise analyses of opportunities and challenges, is a crucial basis for formulating an overarching strategy for development and orienting military technology in line with the specific characteristics, functions, and missions of each service branch, towards the common goal of building a modern army.
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
Transforming the artillery-missile strategic defensive posture into a strategic counter-offensive posture in a Fatherland protection war
Thursday, August 21, 2025, 21:33 (GMT+7)
Transforming the artillery-missile posture from strategic defence to strategic counter-offensive in a war of homeland defence is a matter of profound significance. While not entirely new, it belongs to the art of war, which is ever evolving and developing, and therefore requires continuous research, supplementation, and refinement both in theory and in practice.