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'Military of Vietnam'), the People's Army (Vietnamese: Quân đội Nhân dân) or colloquially the Troops (Bộ đội), is the national military force of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and the armed wing of the ruling Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV).
The People's Army of Vietnam (alternatively Vietnam People's Army; Vietnamese: Quân đội nhân dân Việt Nam) is the mainline military force of Vietnam. [1] [2] The PAVN includes: the Vietnam People's Ground Force, (Special Forces of Vietnam), the Vietnam People's Navy (including Naval Infantry (Vietnam), Naval Special Operation Force (Vietnam) and Naval Air Force (Vietnam)), the Vietnam ...
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.
The Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN; Vietnamese: Lục quân Việt Nam Cộng hòa; French: Armée de la république du Viêt Nam) composed the ground forces of the South Vietnamese military from its inception in 1955 to the Fall of Saigon in April 1975. [2]
At its foundation, the American O/B controversy derived from the appraisal by analysts of a foreign enemy's ability to field combatants. Its wider effect involved a host of issues: the entire war in Southeast Asia and domestic public opinion, the politics of military intelligence and the utility of combat/support formations, presidential electioneering confronting an intelligence estimate ...
The QLVNCH (also known as the RVNMF) was formally established on 26 October 1955 when the State of Vietnam became a republic after a rigged referendum. [3] Created out from ex-French Union Army colonial Indochinese auxiliary units (French: Supplétifs), gathered earlier in April 1949 into the French-led Vietnamese National Army or VNA (Vietnamese: Quân Đội Quốc Gia Việt Nam – QĐQGVN ...
The Vietnamese National Army was officially created on 8 December 1950. [3] However, the army of this state was established before. According to the national defense decree of the State of Vietnam dated April 13, 1949; a national military force named the "National Guard" established on the basis of the pro-French autonomous military forces of the Vietnamese in the North and Central and South ...
The Vietnam People's Air Force (VPAF; Không quân nhân dân Việt Nam (KQNDVN)), officially the Air Defence - Air Force Service (ADAF Service; Vietnamese: Quân chủng Phòng không - Không quân (Quân chủng PKKQ)) or the Vietnam Air Force (Không quân Việt Nam (KQVN)), is the aerial and air defence service branch of Vietnam.