Ten major global military and defence events in 2025
Thursday, January 08, 2026, 20:54 (GMT+7)
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
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”
Signal Brigade 21 builds itself into an “exemplarily, typically” comprehensively strong unit
Monday, December 29, 2025, 14:11 (GMT+7)
Fully aware of those challenges, over the years, the Brigade has directed its affiliates to resolutely, synchronously implement various solutions aimed at building “exemplarily, typically” comprehensively strong unit, considering this a decisive factor in raising its overall quality and ensuring seamless, reliable communications for assigned missions
Solutions for improving the effectiveness of political and spiritual mobilisation in the defence mobilisation in the new era
Friday, December 26, 2025, 20:07 (GMT+7)
The political-spiritual work in the defence mobilisation is a strategic issue, which plays a key role in assuring the strength of national defence. The above-mentioned contents and solutions are just an aspect for all offices and units to research and consult, making contribution to further improving the effectiveness of such an important work in the new era.
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.
Management of digital archival records within the Ministry of National Defence - an inevitable requirement of the national digital transformation process
Tuesday, December 23, 2025, 16:07 (GMT+7)
Management of digital archival records within the Ministry of National Defence is a new issue and a critical step of digital technology application, contributing to developing modern administration, providing timely, accurate information, enhancing the effectiveness and efficiency of leadership, command, management, and combat power. This task requires strong leadership and direction from party committees and commands at all levels to ensure coordinated, effective implementation in line with an appropriate road map
Brigade 139 builds a modern, highly skilled mobile signal force
Friday, December 12, 2025, 20:51 (GMT+7)
Brigade 139, under Signal Corps, is a strategic-level signal unit tasked with organising training, maintaining combat readiness, and providing mobile communications support for leaders of the Ministry of National Defence in directing offices and units across the entire Military, as well as ensuring routine communications in Military Region 2 and part of the capital city of Hanoi, and performing other contingency missions
Cao Bang province focuses its leadership on defence and military tasks
Thursday, December 11, 2025, 21:28 (GMT+7)
Thoroughly grasping the Party’s lines and policies on defence and security tasks, Cao Bang province has been focusing its leadership and direction on well performing these tasks, creating a favourable environment for socio-economic development and contributing to firmly protecting the Fatherland in the new situation
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
Improving the quality of cyberspace combat training and exercises
Tuesday, December 09, 2025, 10:48 (GMT+7)
Today, cyberspace is a strategic environment, a new battlefield without gunfire but marked by intense confrontation, directly impacting our country’s defence, security, and development. In that context, improving cyberspace combat training and exercises as well as combat capabilities in the digital environment is an urgent requirement to protect the Fatherland early and from afar in cyberspace under new conditions