Overview of the global political and military landscape in 2025
Wednesday, December 31, 2025, 14:15 (GMT+7)
The most prominent features of the global political and military landscape in 2025 are the irreversible trend towards multipolarity of the world order and intense competition among major powers. Besides, worrying developments from the conflicts of Russia-Ukraine, Israel-Iran, India-Pakistan, etc., and the risk of US military intervention in Venezuela are posing significant challenges to global security and stability.
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.
Centre for Standards - Metrology - Quality of the Air Defence - Air Force improves the capacity to maintain and transmit standards
Friday, December 26, 2025, 13:14 (GMT+7)
Fully aware of the honour, responsibility and importance of their assigned tasks, officers and soldiers of the Centre for Standards - Metrology - Quality of the Air Defence and Air Force continue to stay united, overcome difficulties, and excellently complete the task of maintaining and transmitting standards, contributing to building the Service revolutionary, regular, elite, and modern, firmly protecting the Fatherland's airspace in the new situation.
Promoting contests and competitions – a breakthrough to improve the combat power in Regiment 213
Monday, December 15, 2025, 13:20 (GMT+7)
Clearly understanding such significance and importance, Regiment 213 of the Air Defence Division 363 has chosen contests and competitions as the breakthrough to make a steady change in their training and in the building of all strong, “exemplary, typical” units, continuously improving overall quality and combat power, firmly managing and safeguarding the Fatherland’s airspace in all situations.
Division 377 maintains combat readiness to protect the Fatherland’s airspace
Monday, December 08, 2025, 20:54 (GMT+7)
Adhering to its functions and tasks in the new situation, Air Defence Division 377, under the Air Defence - Air Force Service, has adopted synchronised solutions to improve its combat readiness capacity as the basis for firmly protecting the Fatherland’s airspace over South Central Coast, Central Highlands, and Truong Sa special zone
Strategic competition among major powers in the Asia-Pacific region and implications for ASEAN
Monday, November 24, 2025, 15:14 (GMT+7)
According to international observers, the formation of the US-led sub-multilateral security mechanisms QUAD, AUKUS, and other "trilateral, quadrilateral" security cooperation mechanisms can increase the risk of US-China confrontation and affect ASEAN's centrality in the regional security structure as shown through ARF, ADMM, ADMM+, etc. The risk of "securitising" cooperation areas will increase with the increasing momentum of strategic competition between major powers.
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
Prospects and implications of “Golden Dome” missile defence system
Tuesday, October 21, 2025, 20:28 (GMT+7)
History has also shown that the expansion of strategic weapon systems by great powers during the Cold War ultimately resulted in arms control treaties aimed at managing and reducing such arsenals. Therefore, the prospects and implications of the Golden Dome for both the regional and global security landscape remain issues that warrant close and continued observation.
Institute of Military Science and Technology accelerates research and development
Friday, October 17, 2025, 07:54 (GMT+7)
Proudly receiving the Second-class Military Exploit Order on the occasion of its 65th anniversary, the officers, engineers, and soldiers of the Institute of Military Science and Technology pledge to unite, overcome challenges, and continue reform to build a strong, specialised, and multidisciplinary scientific organisation capable of fulfilling its missions in the new era and forever worthy of the honourable title Hero of the People’s Armed Forces.
Building Naval Region 4 into a revolutionary, regular, elite, and modern force
Friday, October 10, 2025, 14:40 (GMT+7)
Promoting its proud tradition as a Heroic People’s Armed Forces Unit, the officers and sailors of Naval Region 4 remain united, resilient, and determined to overcome all difficulties and hardships. They will continue to uphold their noble spirit and persist in building the Region into a revolutionary, regular, elite, and modern force, firmly defending the sacred maritime sovereignty of the Fatherland.