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.
Strategic competition among major powers in the Asia-Pacific region and implications for ASEAN
Monday, November 24, 2025, 15:14 (GMT+7)
According to international observers, the formation of the US-led sub-multilateral security mechanisms QUAD, AUKUS, and other "trilateral, quadrilateral" security cooperation mechanisms can increase the risk of US-China confrontation and affect ASEAN's centrality in the regional security structure as shown through ARF, ADMM, ADMM+, etc. The risk of "securitising" cooperation areas will increase with the increasing momentum of strategic competition between major powers.
On the guiding principles in the Draft Political Report to the Party’s 14th National Congress
Thursday, July 24, 2025, 10:31 (GMT+7)
The system of guiding principles set out by the Party Central Committee in the draft Political Report is fairly complete, highly generalised, and coherently structured. It reflects fully, comprehensively the major issues our country is facing and serves as an ideological pointer - a compass for the CPV’s leadership in the years to come
Review of the world political and military situation in 2023
Thursday, December 28, 2023, 10:53 (GMT+7)
The world political and military picture in 2023 is still mixed with light and dark colours, in which, strategic competition between major countries is still fierce, conflicts in regions continue to increase in intensity, scope and nature, etc. However, there are also many signs that the US and China are both showing efforts to control disagreements.
Global security viewed from the Munich Security Conference of 2022
Tuesday, April 12, 2022, 22:47 (GMT+7)
The Munich Security Conference is one of the world’s leading security forums debating international political issues on the balance of power in international relations and the consolidation of the global legal system and the world order. This year’s Conference welcomed the participation of more than 30 heads of states or governments, about 100 ministers and senior officials, and many experts in foreign, security, defence, and economic policies, including highest-ranking officials of important international organisations
Historical truth about World War II should be protected
Tuesday, September 15, 2020, 08:04 (GMT+7)
On the basis of respecting historical truths, progressive people of the world need to affirm and resolutely reject all attempts to review the history of World War II; doubts about the decisive role of the Soviet Union in the victory over fascism and militarism. At the same time, it is necessary to assert that the victory of the Soviet Red Army in World War II has paved the way for many countries to liberate themselves from the dangers of fascism, militarism and colonialism.
The impacts made by the strategic competition between the U.S. and China on Southeast Asian countries
Thursday, June 25, 2020, 13:43 (GMT+7)
Since Donald Trump took office in early 2017, the relationship between the U.S. and China has entered an intensive, comprehensive strategic competition that has been even called the “second Cold War.” This new development has impacted on the entire political and security situation of the world, particularly the Southeast Asia which has been the centrepiece of the competition between major powers
The Geneva Accords of 1954 and lessons on the art of securing the victory step by step
Friday, July 19, 2019, 13:56 (GMT+7)
Assessing the results of the Geneva Conference (1954) on Indochina, most of scholars from many countries agreed that it had been a victory of Vietnam and a success of its strategy to achieve the victory step by step in the war for national liberation
10 notable defence-military events around the globe in 2018
Saturday, January 05, 2019, 06:55 (GMT+7)
In 2018, the world witnessed historic dialogues and intense strategic competition between major powers. To depict the world in 2018, the National Defence Journal would like to introduce 10 notable defence-military events