An overview of the European Union’s new defence strategy and its implications for regional and international security
Friday, May 16, 2025, 15:29 (GMT+7)
In the face of rapid, complex, unpredictable developments throughout the world and in the region, numerous European Union (EU) senior officials have stated that it is time for the EU to act more decisively and proactively. Accordingly, on 19th March 2025, the EU unveiled a new Defence Strategy aimed at enhancing its security autonomy, maintaining regional stability, and safeguarding its core interests
Changes in Russia’s revised “nuclear doctrine”
Friday, January 24, 2025, 07:05 (GMT+7)
Russia's revised nuclear doctrine has been supplemented and amended in the direction of expanding the target, scope of deterrence and lowering the activation threshold. That will help Moscow have more options in using nuclear weapons; at the same time, it is an important basis for protecting the security, national interests, and territorial sovereignty of Russia.
10 Major Global Military and Defence Events of 2024
Thursday, January 09, 2025, 10:06 (GMT+7)
In 2024, the global landscape witnessed unprecedented complexity and unpredictability, marked by intensifying strategic competition among major powers and escalating military conflicts across various regions. These developments further destabilised an already volatile global security environment. To provide a comprehensive overview of the global security landscape, the National Defence Journal presents a roundup of the 10 most significant military and defence events
On bringing into full play the role of Viet Bac’s armed forces in building “people’s hearts and minds posture” in the new era
Wednesday, May 29, 2024, 07:29 (GMT+7)
Viet Bac occupies a strategically important position in terms of politics, economics, society, national defence, security, and diplomacy, serveing as a “cornerstone of national fence” for the Northern region and the whole country. Fully aware of this, over the years, the Party Committee and Command of Military Region 1 (MR1) have implemented various synchronised policies and leadership solutions to strengthen the “people’s hearts and minds posture”, the all-people national defence, and the people’s security
Hamas - Israel conflict's multi-dimensional impacts on regional and international security
Friday, February 23, 2024, 09:45 (GMT+7)
According to analysts, the Hamas - Israel conflict not only causes instability in the region, but what is worrying is also that the conflict is deepening the division and hatred between Arabs, Muslims, and Jewish. This is also the core reason why the Middle East will still be the world’s “flash point”, and the peace process has not found a way out.
Military to stay active and proactive in international integration and defence diplomacy in the new context
Wednesday, November 15, 2023, 13:53 (GMT+7)
Thoroughly grasping and implementing the Party’s foreign policy, in recent years, The Central Military Commission and the Ministry of National Defence have attached importance to the active and synchronised implementation of international integration and defence diplomacy. Thanks to innovations and creativity, comprehensive results have been yielded on both bilateral and multilateral fronts, contributing to consolidating and developing Vietnam’s relations with other nations and international organisations.
NATO adjusts its strategy for the Indo-Pacific region
Tuesday, May 30, 2023, 07:17 (GMT+7)
It can be seen that the expansion of NATO’s influence into the Indo-Pacific has been arousing concern for countries in this region, as it increases the risk of instability when the competition between China and the West becomes increasingly fierce, which has been predicted by international analysts and commentators.
Military strives to perform well the task of defence diplomacy in 2023
Wednesday, March 15, 2023, 14:55 (GMT+7)
In 2022, despite the heavy workload of defence diplomacy and the influence of complicated factors, including many challenges and alterations, with high political determination and proactive and creative spirit, the Central Military Commission and the Ministry of National Defence successfully led and directed the comprehensive implementation of many solutions and achieved many important results, contributing to the maintenance of peace and stability for our country and the cause of firmly defending the Motherland; and elevating the prestige and position of our country and the Military.
Institute for Defence International Relations with the work of international integration and defence diplomacy
Tuesday, December 20, 2022, 17:54 (GMT+7)
IDIR has worked closely with relevant agencies to advise the Central Military Commission, Ministry of Defence in drafting and implementing many resolutions, projects, programmes, and plans of action on international integration and defence diplomacy; promoting multilateral defence and security cooperation initiatives to become more and more in-depth, practical and effective; successfully advised and organised many ASEAN defence meetings and participate in international and regional, multilateral and bilateral conferences, forums and dialogues; reviewed thousands of documents related to defence diplomacy of Central ministries, departments, branches, etc., in accordance to the Institute’ functions and responsibilities.
VPA to improve the effectiveness of strategic study, prediction, and advice to meet requirements and missions of safeguarding the Fatherland
Tuesday, August 23, 2022, 13:33 (GMT+7)
MND’s strategic-level advisory bodies have worked closely with central commissions, ministries, and branches and localities to ceaselessly enhance ability to conduct strategic study, prediction, and advice and instruct effective, unitary, synchronous implementation of many important strategies, resolutions, conclusions, projects, and legal documents regarding military and defence domains, which contributes to improvement and development of theoretical thinking, military guidelines and arts of Viet Nam, state management of national defence, better meeting requirements of building and safeguarding the Fatherland both in the short and long term.