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SWAPO's military wing was founded as the South West Africa Liberation Army (SWALA) in 1962. [8] [10] On 12 June 1968, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution which proclaimed that, in accordance with the desires of its people, South West Africa be renamed "Namibia". [19]
The People's Liberation Army (PLA) is the military of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the People's Republic of China (PRC). It consists of four services — Ground Force , Navy , Air Force , and Rocket Force —and four arms— Aerospace Force , Cyberspace Force , Information Support Force , and Joint Logistics Support Force .
The history of the People's Liberation Army began in 1927 with the start of the Chinese Civil War and spans to the present, having developed from a peasant guerrilla force into the largest armed force in the world.
As a result, many people mistakenly believed that the LASV was a part of the People's Army of Vietnam. The DRV and other Marxist-Leninist nations recognised the LASV as a conventional force the Communist side in the South of Vietnam. [6] Units of the Vietnam People's Army and the South Vietnamese Liberation Army in South Vietnam in April 1975:
In Nicaragua, by Augusto Sandino's forces against the occupying U.S. Marines. In Chad, by FROLINAT against the Tombalbaye dictatorship; In South Africa, against the apartheid regime by Umkhonto we Sizwe and Azanian People's Liberation Army. The First and Second Chechen Wars, by the Chechen peoples against Russia; The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
The People's Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA) is the armed wing of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), a banned political organisation in India [2] which aims to overthrow the Indian Government through protracted people's war. [3]
The Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM; Arabic: الحركة الشعبية لتحرير السودان, Al-Ḥarakat ash-Shaʿbiyyat liTaḥrīr as-Sūdān) is a political party in South Sudan. It was initially founded as the political wing of the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA; a key belligerent of the Second Sudanese Civil War ...
The NLF also included fully armed formations – regional and local guerrillas, and the People's Liberation Armed Forces (PLAF). The PLAF was the "Main Force" – the Chu Luc or full-time soldiers of the NLF's military wing. Many histories lump both the NLF and the armed formations under the term "Viet Cong" or "VC" in common usage.