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  2. People's Army of Vietnam - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Vietnam People's Armed Forces - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Government of Vietnam - Wikipedia

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    The Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (Vietnamese: Chính phủ nước Cộng hòa xã hội chủ nghĩa Việt Nam; less formally the Vietnamese Government or the Government of Vietnam, Vietnamese: Chính phủ Việt Nam) is the cabinet and the central executive body of the state administration of Vietnam. The members of the ...

  5. Political organizations and armed forces in Vietnam - Wikipedia

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    Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng (Vietnam Nationalist Party), Tonkin, has Paramilitary forces (Yên Bái mutiny), 1945–49 pro-Republic of China/Nationalist Chinese forces, and Bảo Đại since 1947. Has military forces (Dân Quốc quân in Tonkin, Annam, Cochinchina, Anti-French in Cochinchina 1945), conflict with Viet Minh since 1945. Minor ...

  6. Vietnamese National Army - Wikipedia

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    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]

  7. NLF and PAVN strategy, organization and structure - Wikipedia

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    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]

  8. The History of Self-Immolation as Political Protest

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    The Vietnamese monk set himself on fire in Saigon in 1963 in protest of the persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government backed by the U.S. Several other monks followed his example.

  9. Vietnam Militia and Self-Defence Force - Wikipedia

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    Placed under the political leadership of the Communist Party of Vietnam, the executive administration of the Vietnam Ministry of National Defence, the management from the local and national governments as well as the direct command of the local military headquarters, VMSF is one of the three major components of the Vietnam People's Armed Forces ...