General Vo Nguyen Giap’s philosophy on “people’s war” - its application in the contemporary era
Monday, August 24, 2026, 09:25 (GMT+7)
Through a unique combination of traditional military quintessence, Ho Chi Minh Thought, and modern military theory, General Vo Nguyen Giap’s philosophy on “people’s war” plays a foundational role. It demonstrates his strategic brilliance in the nation’s historic victories during the resistance wars against French colonialists and American imperialists, as well as in the battles to defend the Fatherland’s borders
The art of shaping the battlefield and creating opportunities in the Tay Son Tinh Campaign of 1966
Thursday, February 12, 2026, 14:56 (GMT+7)
The victory of the Tay Son Tinh Campaign smashed one of the three “search and destroy” operations conducted by the enemy in Military Region 5, creating a foundation for defeating the American Local War Strategy. The valuable lessons on the art of “shaping the battlefield and creating opportunities” drawn from this campaign should be further studied, developed, and creatively applied under new conditions of people’s war in defence of the Fatherland.
From the roles of main forces in Ho Chi Minh Campaign to building “elite, compact, strong” corps today
Friday, April 25, 2025, 10:05 (GMT+7)
The victory of Ho Chi Minh Campaign is a pinnacle of Vietnamese military art of people’s war. It confirms the pivotal roles of the main corps, which are considered as core forces and “iron fists” in conducting primarily military attacks and massively destroying the enemies.
The Army and People of the Mekong Delta in the General Offensive and Uprising in Spring 1975
Thursday, April 10, 2025, 13:41 (GMT+7)
During the General Offensive and Uprising in Spring 1975, with the combined strength of the people’s war and a spirit of initiative and creativity, from 26 April 1975, most provinces in the Mekong Delta simultaneously launched offensives and uprisings against the enemy across all fronts, completely liberating their localities on 30 April 30 and 1 May 1975.
Vietnam’s military art and the requirements for its development in the new situation (Continued)
Saturday, August 17, 2024, 20:36 (GMT+7)
Vietnam’s military art in the two resistance wars against the French and Americans is the military art of a people’s war that is very distinctive and unique, based on a combination of traditional and modern elements. It is the military art of a liberation war, gradually developing to reach its peak during the final stage of the resistance war against the Americans for national liberation.
Vietnam’s military art and the requirements for its development in the new situation
Tuesday, July 30, 2024, 10:15 (GMT+7)
It must be affirmed that Vietnam’s military art is the one of the Vietnamese people’s war, combining traditional and modern elements. Vietnam’s military art emerged and gradually developed through the thousands of years of the nation’s struggle to build and safeguard the country.
Some issues regarding chemical defence against strategic airborne assaults in the Fatherland protection war
Tuesday, July 09, 2024, 18:36 (GMT+7)
Ensuring chemical defence against strategic airborne assaults in the war of Fatherland protection is a formidable task, fraught with complexities and challenges. Therefore, it requires ongoing thorough research, aligned with modern combat requirements and the development of the people’s war for Homeland defence in the new context.
The Department of Defence Construction improves the capacity to manage and construct combat structures
Saturday, June 29, 2024, 16:05 (GMT+7)
Fully aware of the position, importance, specificity, and high requirements of the task of building combat works in preparing for the people's war to defend the Fatherland, the Department of Defence Construction continues to strive to enhance its overall capacity, promote the traditions of the heroic Engineering Corps in the new situation, and together with the entire army, successfully completing all assigned tasks.
On logistics support against strategic partitioning during a war for Fatherland protection
Thursday, June 06, 2024, 16:15 (GMT+7)
Combating the enemy’s strategic partitioning represents a task of utmost importance to validating the enemy’s strategic combat method, seizing and holding the initiative on the battlefield, maintaining the postures of people’s war and strategic defence in every theatre of war, in each strategic direction, and across the country. Our operations against the enemy’s strategic partitioning during a war for Fatherland protection will be carried out in the new condition
Party’s line of people’s war is undistortable
Thursday, October 26, 2023, 15:36 (GMT+7)
To safeguard the Fatherland by the art of people’s war in the new condition, fight the enemy by devices, and triumph over the enemy by establishment of posture and exploitation of opportunities are our people’s best ways to defend the country. No forces can defeat a true people’s war. To conduct a true people’s war in the context of enemies’ use of high-tech weapons, it is necessary to work out solutions aimed to prevent and minimise the risk of conflict and war while preparing in every aspect to successfully execute people’s war to safeguard the Fatherland.