“Three Breakthroughs” to enhance the combat strength of the Commando Corps
Thursday, April 09, 2026, 10:20 (GMT+7)
Thoroughly grasping the Party’s military and defence lines and the requirements of building the Military and defending the Fatherland in the new situation, the Commando Corps has been resolutely, synchronously implementing measures to realise its “Three Breakthroughs” for building a “particularly elite and modern” Corps capable of undertaking and successfully accomplishing all assigned tasks
Military transportation work and emerging issues in a war to defend the Fatherland
Friday, March 20, 2026, 14:47 (GMT+7)
Military transportation plays a particularly important role in logistical and technical support activities, sustaining the combat strength of the Army. Therefore, it should continue to be studied and improved in both theory and practical organisation, thereby steadily enhancing military transportation capability to meet support requirements in both peacetime and in a war to defend the Fatherland.
Upholding the 80-year heroic tradition of a strategic command and staff organ to make General Staff strong and capable of its missions
Saturday, September 06, 2025, 22:43 (GMT+7)
In the past 80 years of construction, combat, victory, and maturity, under the leadership and direction of the Party Central Committee and President Ho Chi Minh, particularly the Central Military Commission and the Ministry of National Defence, the General Staff has always excellently fulfilled its role as a strategic, confidential, key staff organ of the Vietnam People’s Army, making a worthy contribution to the cause of national liberation, construction, and protection
On the improved effectiveness of communication engineering support for strategic defence during a Fatherland protection war
Saturday, February 08, 2025, 16:58 (GMT+7)
Maintaining the “blood vessel” of communication during operations in general, strategic defence in each direction and on each battlefield in particular is one of the vital factors for the success of leadership and command of operations. In this regard, communication engineering support plays a crucial role and should be thoroughly studied both theoretically and practically
General Le Trong Tan’s remarkable contributions to Vietnam’s military art
Friday, October 04, 2024, 16:10 (GMT+7)
Holding various commanding positions from tactical and operational to strategic levels, commanding almost all campaigns and decisive strategic operations in the two resistance wars against the US and the French as well as in the war to defend the Southwestern border, he made significant contributions to the development of Vietnam’s unique, creative military art and our nation’s victory against the most powerful imperialists of the 20th century
Several issues regarding military region-level defensive campaigns
Monday, September 16, 2024, 16:13 (GMT+7)
In a (potential) war to defend the Homeland, defensive campaigns will play a crucial role in military region-level defensive operations and may be organised right from the start or during the course of defensive operations, enhancing the protection of key areas in a strategic axis. Therefore, even in peacetime, it is urgent that the conditions, locations, and scale of such a campaign be thoroughly studied
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
The art of “striking at one point to destroy reinforcements” during Central – Lower Laos Campaign 1954
Wednesday, April 24, 2024, 10:56 (GMT+7)
In coordination with other theatres during the Winter – Spring Strategic Offensive of 1953 – 1954, we launched a surprise campaign in Central – Lower Laos, inflicting major losses to the enemy, forcing them to disperse their mobile reserve forces in multiple directions. This is a small-scale campaign conducted in a strategic area, far from our logistics bases; however, with the employment of the art of “striking at one point to destroy reinforcements”, we were able to achieve very high combat efficiency, contributing to the ultimate victory of our Resistance War against French Colonialism
On the deployment of mobile forces to counter enemy ground advances in a strategic defensive operation in the Southern theatre
Thursday, March 28, 2024, 16:12 (GMT+7)
Strategic defence is one of the crucial types of strategic military operations, conducted through the coordination of extensive combat actions by onsite forces, units manning the defensive lines, etc., with the concentrated efforts of mobile forces to counter enemy advances. Its aim is to defeat enemy offensives, defend key objectives and strategic territories, and create favourable conditions and timing for subsequent strategic military operations.
On the use of armoured forces in strategic counteroffensive in national protection war
Sunday, February 18, 2024, 22:05 (GMT+7)
The use of armoured forces in strategic counteroffensive must be based on a thorough understanding of the principles of strategic operations in our war strategy to defend the Homeland. It must also be adapted to the enemy’s and our own situation and the combat environment to ensure flexibility, innovation, and effectiveness.