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The PAVN was first conceived in September 1944 at the first Revolutionary Party Military Conference as the Propaganda Unit of the Liberation Army (alternatively translated as the Vietnam Propaganda Liberation Army, Việt Nam Tuyên truyền Giải phóng Quân) to educate, recruit and mobilise the Vietnamese to create a main force to drive the ...
Vietnam: The Origins of Revolution is a 1966 book by John T. McAlister, Jr. [1] It argues for an original theory on political revolution in Vietnam, . The book, a revised version of the author's doctoral dissertation, chronicles the history of Vietnam from the nascent French colonization in 1885 to the August Revolution in 1945.
On 20 August, Chiang Kai-shek gave orders for the Chinese First Front Army, under the command of General Lu Han of Yunnan, to cross into Vietnam to accept the surrender of the Japanese 38th Army. The Chinese, unlike the British in the south, refused to prepare the way for an immediate French return; to maintain order in Hanoi and keep the city ...
Viet Minh (League for the Independence of Vietnam), included: The Indochinese Communist Party, The New Vietnam Party, The Vietnam Revolutionary Youth League, Vietnam Nationalist Party (a part)...Has military forces in Tonkin ("Cứu quốc quân"-1940, "Việt Nam Tuyên truyền Giải phóng quân" −1944, joined in 1945 named the Liberation ...
Others consider the Viet Cong, or "VC" to primarily refer to the armed elements. [2] The term PAVN (People's Army of Vietnam), identifies regular troops of the North Vietnamese Army or NVA. Collectively, both the southern guerrillas and the regulars from the north were part of PAVN. [3]
The Vietnam People's Public Security (Vietnamese: Công an nhân dân Việt Nam) is the main police, and security force of Vietnam. The People's Public Security Forces is the core force of the people's armed forces in performing the task of protecting national security and ensuring social order and safety, and crime prevention and control.
The Vietnamese National Army was unofficially created on January 1, 1949, as the armed forces of the pro-French Provisional Central Government of Vietnam.It initially had roughly 25 000 troops, including about 10 000 irregulars. 1000 French officers were given the task of training and supervising the new army. [2]
In response to Vietnam's 1978 invasion and occupation of Cambodia (which ended the rule of the Chinese-backed Khmer Rouge), the People's Republic of China launched a brief punitive military campaign against Vietnam, lasting from 17 February to 16 March. [4] Chinese forces entered northern Vietnam and captured several cities near the border.