PLAF

See also: plaf

English

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.
   • 2010, Xiaobing Li, Voices from the Vietnam War, page 224:

     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.

   • 2016, Christopher Goscha, The Penguin History of Modern Vietnam, Penguin, published 2017, page 335:

     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.

See also

• Viet Cong

Anagrams

• flap