The global trend of peace, cooperation, and development in the new context
Monday, September 22, 2025, 19:23 (GMT+7)
Humanity has not witnessed another global war since World War II ended 80 years ago. However, the recent growing tendency among countries to use force to resolve disputes and disagreements has raised doubts about world peace. What is the essence of this issue? This article aims to provide an additional perspective
The entire military strives to successfully accomplish the Resolution of the 11th Military Party Congress and military, defence tasks for 2025
Monday, February 10, 2025, 10:46 (GMT+7)
The world and domestic situations present a mix of favourable conditions, opportunities, difficulties, and challenges, posing new demands and heavier responsibilities for the cause of building and defending the Fatherland. To successfully fulfill the tasks of 2025 and the goals and missions set out by the 11th Military Party Congress requires the entire military to strengthen unity and consensus, overcome difficulties, and decisively implement solutions.
A review of the global political and military landscape in 2024
Sunday, December 29, 2024, 14:44 (GMT+7)
In 2024, the global political and military landscape underwent significant changes due to the impacts of various hot spots, conflicts, and strategic competition among major powers, particularly the Russo-Ukrainian conflict, the escalating war in the Middle East, tensions on the Korean Peninsula, and increasing signs of US-China rivalry
National Defence Academy applies the Resolution of the 8th Plenum of the Party Central Committee (13th tenure) to training and scientific research
Thursday, November 14, 2024, 18:18 (GMT+7)
As the centre of training senior cadres of the Party, State, and People’s Army, the National Defence Academy (NDA) has grasped and seriously carried out measures to quickly bring the Resolution into life and timely support training, scientific research, and proposal on issues relating to military, national defence, and protection of the Fatherland.
Promoting the core role of the Navy in the protection of the country’s seas and islands
Friday, September 27, 2024, 08:22 (GMT+7)
Thoroughly grasping the resolutions and directives of the Party and State on sea and island strategy, in recent years, all levels, sectors, localities and the Navy have regularly cared and led the synchronous implementation of solutions to protect sea and island sovereignty and gained significant results.
Great power competition in Indo-Pacific
Friday, August 16, 2024, 07:58 (GMT+7)
Overall assessment of great powers’ Indo-Pacific strategies reveals that despite their different expression, all great powers put the Indo-Pacific at the heart of global security and interests of each country. Accordingly, strategic competition among great powers in Indo-Pacific is a unique issue characterised by cooperation, deterrence, and containment.
Theoretical and practical breakthroughs in the Fatherland protection under the Resolution of the 8th Plenum of the Party Central Committee (11th tenure)
Sunday, September 18, 2022, 06:50 (GMT+7)
In the new condition, it is necessary to assert that people’s war for the Fatherland protection is still an effective method to deal with new-style and hi-tech wars; modern weapons and equipment are important, but human being are the determinants. Hence, great weight should be added to making cadres and soldiers of the armed forces politically strong and capable of exploiting and mastering science, technology, and modern materiel.
Stepping up force adjustment to meet requirements of building an adept, compact, and strong VPA
Wednesday, June 08, 2022, 01:19 (GMT+7)
To meet its task requirements in accordance with modern, hi-tech war, the VPA must adjust its organisational structure in the adept, compact, strong, and modern direction to fulfil its missions in peacetime, remain ready for any war, and firmly defend the Fatherland in any situation.
The world's major military and political shifts in 2021
Monday, December 27, 2021, 10:08 (GMT+7)
U.S military policy under Biden’s administration is shaped and implemented basing on the “Interim National Security Strategic Guidance” released on 3 March, 2021 which predicted that US is confronting changes in world power balance with growing competition from China and Russia who are pursuing their influences on regional and international scales
The U.S. and the Philippines repair treaty alliance
Tuesday, October 12, 2021, 08:22 (GMT+7)
US-Philippines relations, which have come under strain over the past 5 years, have apparently warmed again as Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has decided to fully restore the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) with the US of which he ordered revocation in February 2020. What caused their bilateral relations to turn sour and Manila to abruptly pivot back to Washington has drawn widespread attention