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
Some countermeasures by anti-aircraft artillery forces against unmanned aerial vehicles in the defence of the Fatherland
Friday, October 24, 2025, 15:37 (GMT+7)
Operations against UAVs, given the increasing sophistication of these platforms and the emergence of new forms and tactics of aerial attack, present anti-aircraft artillery forces with numerous challenges that demand timely and effective solutions. To accomplish their mission, anti-aircraft artillery units must continuously study, innovate and develop effective engagement methods; maintain rigorous training; build solid defensive dispositions; and ensure comprehensive logistical and technical preparation.
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.
1st Coast Guard Region improves the effectiveness of foreign affairs in the new situation
Friday, February 07, 2025, 13:33 (GMT+7)
Grasping the policies of the Party, Central Military Commission, Defence Ministry on international integration and defence foreign affairs, 1st Coast Guard Zone has been synchronously implementing many practical, flexible and effective solutions to make these issues thorough and realistic, creating a peaceful and stable environment on the assigned waters.
Brigade 490 enhances combat power with three breakthroughs
Tuesday, November 26, 2024, 17:53 (GMT+7)
With high determination, scientific and practical solutions in implementing the "three breakthroughs", Missile Brigade 490 has made remarkable progress and yielded positive results in building an all-strong "exemplary and typical" unit, improving overall quality, combat strength, creating a foundation to successfully complete all assigned tasks.
The Party's viewpoint on the development of defence industry to meet the requirements of Homeland protection in the new period
Tuesday, October 29, 2024, 09:30 (GMT+7)
In the context of international integration and the strong impacts of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, it is necessary to continue to review, proactively build and perfect the legal framework concerning the defence industry to ensure practicality, feasibility, and creating favourable conditions for the defence industry to integrate and develop rapidly and steadily.
Promoting tradition, building the Artillery Corps "revolutionary, regular, elite, and increasingly modern"
Monday, June 28, 2021, 12:50 (GMT+7)
During its construction and combat process, Artillery Corps has seen constant developments in structure, force, weapons, equipment, and art of combat; stood side by side with other forces on the battlefields and made an important contribution to the great victory of the nation to liberate the South, reunify the country, and firmly defend the Vietnam socialist Fatherland. Currently, the Corps is focusing on making it "revolutionary, regular, elite, and increasingly modern", meeting the requirements and tasks of Fatherland protection.
Corps 326 participates in socio-economic development and consolidates areas of operation
Friday, May 29, 2020, 11:30 (GMT+7)
Fully aware of their role as “a troop of work”, and “a troop of production”, thoroughly grasping their areas of operation, with enthusiasm and strong determination, the Party Committee and Command of the Corps have persuaded its cadres and soldiers to surmount hardships and accomplish their assigned tasks.
Regiment 3 builds comprehensively strong unit
Thursday, May 14, 2020, 09:47 (GMT+7)
Building regularity, disciplining and ensuring safety for the unit are considered a breakthrough in its building of comprehensive strong unit. Therefore, the Regiment’s Party Committee and Commandant have deployed a number of guidelines and synchronous measures for realizing this task and employed flexibly different models and methods of comprehensive and thorough education and propagation for all objects, in which emphasis is placed on new recruits.
Four breakthroughs in the building of an all strong unit at the Signal Brigade 134
Tuesday, April 21, 2020, 07:44 (GMT+7)
Implementing the task of building the unit straightforward to modernity while its affiliates are garrisoned in 17 provinces in the North and Centre of Vietnam with several independent posts are located in far flung areas and its troops still suffer from hard living conditions, the Party Committee and Commandant of the Signal Brigade 134 have adopted a number of synchronous, drastic, creative measures in which focusing on the 4 breakthroughs in building an all strong unit is considered an important, permanent and long term task