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.
Building Artillery Brigade 45 into a revolutionary, regular, elite, modern unit
Wednesday, August 20, 2025, 14:39 (GMT+7)
Being founded on 22 August 1945, Artillery Brigade 45 (Artillery Corps) was the first towed artillery unit of the Vietnam People’s Army. Over the past 80 years of construction, combat, and maturity, in any tasks or circumstances, the Brigade has always heightened the spirit of “determination to fight and to win”, excellently fulfilling all assigned missions
Air Defence Division 365 further applies science, technology, innovation, and digital transformation
Thursday, August 14, 2025, 06:51 (GMT+7)
Amid opportunities and challenges in air combat in the digital era, Air Defence Division 365 has focused its leadership and direction on applying science, technology, innovation, and digital transformation, thereby creating a breakthrough in raising the quality of managing and protecting the Fatherland’s airspace
The art of conducting key and decisive battle during 1965 Ba Gia Campaign
Monday, July 28, 2025, 14:07 (GMT+7)
Realising the Party’s resolve, Military Region 5’s Command decided to launch Ba Gia Campaign in North Quang Ngai in order to annihilate a significant section of enemy troops, disintegrate the enemy’s paramilitary forces, expand the liberated zone in Son Tinh - Tra Bong, provide support for our political movement, and maintain the corridor connecting the mountainous area with the plain area
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