Core innovations in the Party’s thinking and leadership methods in the Draft Documents to be submitted to the 14th National Party Congress
Thursday, January 15, 2026, 15:55 (GMT+7)
The Draft Documents to be submitted to the 14th National Congress of the Communist Party of Viet Nam have been prepared with great care and rigour. They clearly demonstrate a strategic vision, together with profound innovations in theoretical thinking and in the Party’s leadership methods.
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
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.
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”
Engineer Brigade 25 upholds the tradition of “Opening the way to victory”, successfully completing its mission
Friday, December 26, 2025, 13:14 (GMT+7)
The glorious achievements during 50 years of development and combat provide a great source of pride and encouragement for generations of officers and soldiers of the Brigade today so that they constantly strive, train, overcome all difficulties, and excellently complete their political tasks, contributing to improving its overall quality, combat strength.
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
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
“Better fewer, but better” - Lenin’s viewpoint in relation to today’s task of building a compact, strong, modern Vietnam People’s Army
Wednesday, November 26, 2025, 19:10 (GMT+7)
V.I. Lenin’s viewpoint, “Better fewer, but better”, holds profound theoretical and practical significance in the organisation and building of the apparatus of a new type of state, as well as in the formation and organisation of a revolutionary army. This viewpoint remains fully relevant today, particularly in the process of building a compact, strong, and modern Vietnam People’s Army