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PLAF

PLAF proper noun: the People's Liberation Armed Forces, the army of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam during the 1960s and early 1970s.

Proper noun

PLAF

  1. (historical) The People's Liberation Armed Forces, the army of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam during the 1960s and early 1970s.
    • The serious competition between the Chinese and Soviets generated more material, financial, and military technology with which the PLAF and NVA could modernize their forces.2010, Xiaobing Li, Voices from the Vietnam War, page 224
    • Established in February 1961, the PLAF rapidly recruited into its ranks a wide range of disgruntled peasants, youth, religious leaders, and non-Viet peoples, communist or not.2016, Christopher Goscha, The Penguin History of Modern Vietnam, Penguin, published 2017, page 335

Questions about PLAF

What does PLAF mean?
PLAF means the People's Liberation Armed Forces, the army of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam during the 1960s and early 1970s.
What part of speech is PLAF?
PLAF is a proper noun.

Words near PLAF in the dictionary

  1. Pladget
  2. pladienolide
  3. pladienolides
  4. plaesiomyid
  5. plaesiomyids
  6. PLAF
  7. plafibride
  8. plafond
  9. plafonds
  10. plag
  11. plagae

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