This day is commemorated as the anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army.

* Armed Forces Day or Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Liberation Army ( People's Republic of China )

* 1958 – Chinese Civil War: The Second Taiwan Strait crisis begins with the People's Liberation Army's bombardment of Quemoy.

* 1949 – Chinese Civil War: Establishment of the People's Liberation Army Navy.

* 1944 – Forces of the Communist-controlled Greek People's Liberation Army attack the smaller National and Social Liberation resistance group, which surrenders.

border by soldiers from the Sudan People's Liberation Army ( SPLA ), looking for safety during periods of attacks or drought.

As of 2007 the Chinese People's Liberation Army employed two battalions of horse cavalry in Xinjing Military District for border patrol work ( see China-Defense. com website ).

Due to concerns about widespread and well-documented corruption in Chiang's government throughout his rule ( though not always with his knowledge ), the U. S. government limited aid to Chiang for much of the period of 1946 to 1948, in the midst of fighting against the People's Liberation Army led by Mao Zedong.

In Asia, Chinese armed forces use crossbows at all unit levels from traffic police to the special force Snow Leopard Commando Unit of the People's Armed Police and the People's Liberation Army.

There are two other key organs of political power in the People's Republic of China: the formal government and the People's Liberation Army.

While the CIA and MI6 and the People's Liberation Army of China financed the operation along with the Pakistan government against the Soviet Union Eventually the Soviet Union began looking for a withdrawal route and in 1988 Geneva Accords were signed between Communist-Afghanistan and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ; under the terms Soviet troops were to withdraw.

The People's Liberation Army issues two long, rectangular tags.

* 1949 – Chinese Civil War: The People's Liberation Army begins its siege of Chengdu, the last Kuomintang-held city in mainland China, forcing President of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek and his government to retreat to Taiwan.

In 1991 the Eritrean People's Liberation Front defeated the Ethiopian government.

Internal disputes over strategy and tactics eventually led to the ELF's fragmentation and the founding in 1972 of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front ( EPLF ).

The Eritrean People's Liberation Front ( EPLF ), an ally in the fight against the Mengistu regime, assumed control of Eritrea and established a provisional government.

Albanians celebrate their independence day on 28 November ( which is the date on which they declared their independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1912 ), while in the former People's Socialist Republic of Albania the National Liberation festivity date was 29 November.

On 14 December 2005, Fiji's Military Commander, Commodore Frank Bainimarama began an official visit to China, at the invitation of the People's Liberation Army.

* 1950 – Chinese Civil War: The National Revolutionary Army instigates the unsuccessful Battle of Tianquan against the People's Liberation Army.

The tactics of guerrilla warfare were used successfully in the 20th century by — among others — the Soviet partisans and the Polish Home Army and the OSS in Burma in World War II ; Mao Zedong and the People's Liberation Army in the Second Sino-Japanese War and Chinese Civil War.

Shek Kong Airfield, located near Yuen Long, is a military airfield for the People's Liberation Army, which is of limited operating capabilities due to surrounding terrains.

An 87-day siege of a Croatian city by the Yugoslav People's Army ( JNA ), supported by various Serbian paramilitary forces, between August – November 1991 during the Croatian War of Independence

As the Red Army invaded Bulgaria in 1944 and installed a communist government, the armed forces were rapidly forced to reorganise following the Soviet model, and were renamed as the Bulgarian People's Army ( Bulgarska Narodna Armiya, BNA ).

Training in the Bulgarian People's Army was exhaustive even by Soviet standards, however, it was never seen as a major force within the Warsaw Pact.

The branches of Burkina Faso's military include its Army, Air Force, National Gendarmerie, National Police, and People's Militia.

The Army of Burkina Faso ( L ' Armée de Terre-Ground Forces or LAT ) is a skeletonized force structure of some 5, 800-6, 000 officers and men, augmented by a conscript force or People's Militia of some 45, 000 men and women.

Unlike the police and security forces, the Army and the People's Militia is organized along Soviet / Chinese models and precepts.

In June 1950, Kim Il-sung's North Korean People's Army invaded South Korea.

The Yugoslav People's Army retreated from Croatia into Bosnia and Herzegovina where a new cycle of tensions were escalating: the Bosnian War was to start.

However, an old Yugoslav People's Army barracks building on the Croatian part of the border is still occupied by a small number of Slovenian army personnel.

From 1954 until 1990, the Army was known as the Czechoslovak People's Army ( ČSLA ).

These are the ranks, historic and present-day, of the Armed Forces of the Czech Republic and its predecessor force, the Czechoslovak Armed Forces ( later the People's Army ).

*: Captured by People's Liberation Army and limited number received from U. S. government ; limited use in Korean War and Vietnam War

*: Captured by Korean People's Army limited, used during at the Korean War.

From 1943 to his death in 1980, he held the rank of Marshal of Yugoslavia, serving as the supreme commander of the Yugoslav military, the Yugoslav People's Army ( JNA ).

From 1996 to 2005, Senegal maintained relations with the Republic of China ( Taiwan ) instead of the People's Republic of China.

From 1959, the Federal Council, elected by the parliament, is composed of members of the four major parties, the Protestant Free Democrats, the Catholic Christian Democrats, the left-wing Social Democrats and the right-wing People's Party, essentially creating a system without a sizeable parliamentary opposition ( see concordance system ), reflecting the powerful position of an opposition in a direct democracy.

From 1959 to 2003 the Federal Council was composed of a coalition of all major parties in the same ratio: 2 each from the Free Democratic Party, Social Democratic Party and Christian Democratic People's Party and 1 from the Swiss People's Party.

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From January to March 1793, he was an editor of Die neue Mainzer Zeitung oder Der Volksfreund ( The new Mainz newspaper or The People's Friend ).

From that public platform, Williams on January 15, 1956 inaugurated his own political party, the People's National Movement, which would take Trinidad and Tobago into independence in 1962, and dominate its postcolonial politics.

From 1945 to 1948, Manchuria ( Inner Manchuria ) served as a base area for the People's Liberation Army in the Chinese Civil War against the Kuomintang ( KMT ).

From 1978 to 1982 Tho was named by Hanoi to act as chief advisor to the Kampuchean United Front for National Salvation ( FUNSK ) and later to the nascent People's Republic of Kampuchea.

From 11 May 1973 to 19 December 1977 Ruud Lubbers was Minister of Economic Affairs in the Den Uyl-government and a member of the Catholic People's Party ( KVP ).

* From the First Opium War to the founding of the People's Republic of China, Western gunboats patrolled the Yangtze River to enforce trading privileges and extraterritorial rights that imperial powers acquired through unequal treaties.

From the time he joined the Party until leaving it in the early 1950s, Hay taught courses in subjects ranging from Marxist theory to folk music at the " People's Educational Center " in Hollywood and later throughout the Los Angeles area.

From 1986, 50-70 soldiers of the Volksmarine (" People's Navy ") were on duty here for two to three days, three to four times a year, as part of naval exercises.

From 1945, it was part of the People's Republic of Croatia within new socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

From 1977 through 1978, resistance against the Derg ensued, led primarily by the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Party ( EPRP ).

From 1987 to 1995, he was Leader of the People's Alliance ; during this time, he served as Minister of Finance from 1988 to 1991 and as a Member of Althing for Reykjanes from 1991 to 1996.

From March 1940 to the end of 1945, during the Second Sino-Japanese War, Nosaka resided at the Chinese Red Army base in Yan ' an, in Shaanxi Province, where he headed the Japanese People's Emancipation League ( JPEL ).

From the People's Hall, a southbound avenue was planned, the Avenue of Victory, 23 m wide and long.

From 1954 to 1969, the de jure Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces was the President of the People's Republic of China, who was also the Chairman of the National Defence Council.

From 1949 to 1953, the newly established government of the People's Republic made use of the PLA, militia units made up of demobilized soldiers and other civilians, the police, and loyal citizens to put down resistance and establish order.

From 1948 until 1990 the emblem of People's Republic of Bulgaria was placed on the left side of the white stripe.

From 1991, the PSOE started losing its urban vote in favour of the reformed People's Party.

From March 8 to March 15, the People's Liberation Army sent ballistic missiles within 25 to 35 miles ( just inside the ROC's territorial waters ) off the ports of Keelung and Kaohsiung.