Air Force Division 371 promotes implementation of “4 focuses” to improve combat strength
Friday, January 23, 2026, 13:35 (GMT+7)
Bringing into play the tradition of “The heroic Thang Long Division”, Air Force Division 371 continuously manages to effectively implement the “4 focuses” to build the “revolutionary, regular, highly-skilled, modernised units”, firmly safeguarding the sky of the Fatherland.
The art of conducting the opening engagement in North Binh Dinh Campaign of 1966
Friday, January 23, 2026, 08:28 (GMT+7)
In the North Binh Dinh counter-offensive Campaign, despite facing elite US forces, through the excellent execution of the opening engagement, we successfully created a major breakthrough and drove the Campaign to complete victory. This contributed to the defeat of the enemy’s First Dry-Season Strategic Counter-Offensive Plan on the Southern battlefield
Renewing logistics and technical work towards flexibility, modernity, and sustainability
Monday, January 19, 2026, 14:52 (GMT+7)
The entire Sector has grasped and effectively implemented the guidelines of the CMC and MND on force adjustment, especially on merging General Department of Logistics and General Department of Technology into the GDLT in accordance with plans, without any disruption in support work. In 2025, the Sector made thorough preparations and ensured good logistics and technical support for forces performing A50 and A80 missions
Logistics solutions for disaster response, search and rescue operations
Tuesday, January 13, 2026, 15:55 (GMT+7)
Given the increasingly unpredictable climate and weather patterns, disaster response and search and rescue operations are becoming more difficult and complex. The task of ensuring logistical support for these operations presents many challenges that require further research, supplementation, and improvement in both theory and practice.
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
Combining socio-economic development with strengthening defence and security in the Central Highlands today
Wednesday, December 31, 2025, 14:26 (GMT+7)
The Central Highlands is an area of particular strategic importance in terms of economy, politics, defence, security, and ecological environment. It is also home to a large population of ethnic minority groups, among whom the living conditions of a part of the population remain difficult. Therefore, ensuring stable and sustainable development in the Central Highlands is of great significance to the country’s overall development.
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.
Division 312 focuses on improving combat strength
Friday, December 26, 2025, 13:14 (GMT+7)
Upholding the “Determined to fight, determined to win” flag presented by beloved Uncle Ho, officers and soldiers of the Division today are determined to overcome all difficulties, stay united, make more effort in training, and try to constantly improve its overall quality, combat strength to make it an “elite and modern” division, meeting the requirements and tasks of Fatherland defence in the new situation./.
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
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.