PANO - Thua Thien Hue province held a defensive area exercise from August 1st to 3rd with the theme "People and troops of Thua Thien Hue province collaborate with the regular force of Military Zone 4 to fail the "peaceful evolution" strategy, insurgency and attack of hostile forces to firmly protect the defensive are.”

The exercise aimed to raise troops' and local leaders' awareness of building a strong defensive area and of the need for fine combination between economic development and defense-security reinforcement in the new context.

The People's Army Newspaper would like to introduce several images of the exercise:

Conference issuing the resolution to shift the whole locality to combat readiness posture
Briefing on the exercise contents for participating forces on a sand table
Intercepting enemy landing from sea
The DKZ battery of Platoon 1, Company 5, Regiment 19, Division 968 aiming at targets
Mock-up targets all destroyed

Translated by Anh Tien