In response, the security situation deteriorated with the creation of the socialist Front for the Liberation of Occupied South Yemen ( FLOSY ) which started to attack the NLF in a bid for power, as well as attacking the British.

On 20 December 1960, under instructions from Hanoi, southern communists established the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam ( NLF ) in order to overthrow the government of the south.

After suppressing Vietminh political cadres who were legally campaigning between 1955 and 1959 for the promised elections, Diem faced a growing communist-led uprising that intensified by 1961, headed by the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam ( NLF or, derogatively, Viet Cong ).

The NLF called for Southerners to " overthrow the camouflaged colonial regime of the American imperialists " and to make " efforts toward the peaceful unification.

* National Liberation Front for South Vietnam ( NLF )

However, the North Vietnamese Army ( NVA ) and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam ( NLF ) were able to dictate the pace of attrition to fit their own goals: by continuing to fight a guerrilla war and avoiding large-unit battles, they denied the Americans the chance to fight the kind of war they were best at, and they ensured that attrition would wear down the American public's support for the war faster than them.

While small in terms of total men deployed throughout the Vietnam theater, sapper attacks had a significant impact for the NLF / PAVN effort.

Materiel sent from the north was stored in caches in the border regions that were soon retitled Base Areas, which, in turn, became sanctuaries for NLF and PAVN forces seeking respite and resupply after conducting operations within South Vietnam.

The Tet Offensive in 1968, although a major military defeat for the NLF with half their forces eliminated, marked the psychological turning point in the war.

During the Battle of Hue intense fighting lasted for a month and the NLF executed thousands of residents in the Massacre at Huế.

In response to President Ngo Dinh Diem's abrogation of the 1956 reunification election and suppression of communists during the late 1950s, Hanoi had begun sending arms and material to the guerrillas of the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam ( NLF ), who were fighting an insurgency to topple the American-supported Saigon government.

Instead, the U. S. launched more " tit-for-tat " airstrikes in retaliation for a 7 February 1965 NLF attack at Pleiku ( Operation Flaming Dart ) and for a bomb attack against an American enlisted men's billet at Qui Nhon on the 10th ( Operation Flaming Dart II ).

M113 armored personnel carrier | M-113 damaged by a National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam | NLF 57 mm recoilless rifle

Escalating the scale of American intervention in the ongoing conflict between Ngô Đình Diệm's South Vietnamese government and the communist National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam ( NLF ) insurgents opposing it, Johnson stationed some 575, 000 troops in Southeast Asia to defeat the NLF and their North Vietnamese allies in the Vietnam War, but his costly policy weakened the US economy and, by 1975, ultimately culminated in what most of the world saw as a humiliating defeat of the world's most powerful superpower at the hands of one of the world's poorest nations.

These include the Carlos Feliciano Defense Committee, the Humberto Pagan Defense Committee, and the Puerto Rican Socialist Party ; the Arab Liberation Front, the Iranian Students Association, the Popular Front for the Liberation of the Arab Gulf, the Eritreans for Liberation, the Ethiopian NLF, the Organization for Arab students, the Committee to Support the Revolution in the Gulf, the Democratic Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( DPF ), the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ), and the People ’ s Democratic Republic of Yemen.

During the early stages of the U. S. involvement in the Vietnam War, several U. S. Special Forces Civilian Irregular Defense Group ( CIDG ) camps were established along the borders of South Vietnam in order to both maintain surveillance of PAVN and National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam ( NLF or Viet Cong ) infiltration and to provide support and training to isolated Montagnard villagers, who bore the brunt of the fighting in the isolated area.

Sporadic terrorism occurs ; NLF ask for, and obtain, help from North Vietnam.

Although the People's Revolutionary Party, the South Vietnamese communist party, was the front's " paramount member ", there were two other parties in the NLF, the Democratic Party and the Radical Socialist Party.

The allies fought against the North Vietnamese Army ( NVA ) as well as the National Liberation Front ( NLF, also known as Viet communists Viet Cong ), or " VC ", a guerrilla force within South Vietnam.

Since then it may appear that the PDTA has replaced the NLF, a grounless claim for which there is no documentary evidence.

The reality is that the NLF continues to exist and to struggle, though illegal and not openly active, because of the sensitive transformation period that Bahrain is passing through.

In both stories, the returning protagonist ( Schofield in Scarecrow, James Bond in NLF ) is the target of a monetary contract posted by a villainous organisation ( Majestic-12 in Scarecrow, SPECTRE in NLF ) that requires delivery of the target's severed head, and both stories include the protagonist's loved ones ( Gant in Scarecrow, May and Moneypenny in NLF ) being used as leverage against the protagonist.

A guillotine is also promptly used to kill the protagonist in an execution style chamber in both Scarecrow and NLF.

The province produced famous war literature on both sides of the conflict: The now-famous wartime diary of NLF medic Đặng Thùy Trâm was written here, and from an American perspective, Quảng Ngãi province is the major setting of Tim O ' Brien's The Things They Carried.

They showed equal lack of interest in fighting the NLF, spending their time in a series of coups and counter-coups.

In 1960 it was replaced by the National Liberation Front ( NLF ), more commonly known as the Viet Cong, established by South Vietnamese communists to lead the guerrilla war against Diem.

She went on to be a member of the militant study group Yu Chi Chan Club, which was disbanded at the end of 1962, to be replaced by the National Liberation Front ( NLF ) in January 1963.

In 1963 fighting between Egyptian forces and British-led Saudi-financed guerrillas in the Yemen Arab Republic spread to South Arabia with the formation of the National Liberation Front ( NLF ), who hoped to force the British out of South Arabia.

Hostilities started with a grenade attack by the NLF against the British High Commissioner on 10 December 1963, killing one person and injuring fifty, and a state of emergency was declared, becoming known as the Aden Emergency.

Nevertheless, deadly guerrilla attacks particularly by the NLF soon resumed against British forces once again, with the British being defeated and driven from Aden by the end of November 1967, earlier than had been planned by British Prime Minister Harold Wilson and without an agreement on the succeeding governance.

Their enemies, the NLF, managed to seize power, with Aden itself under NLF control.

The NLF, with the support of the army, attained total control of the new state after defeating the FLOSY and the states of the former Federation in a drawn out campaign of terror.

The NLF was made up of two distinct groups: South Vietnamese intellectuals who opposed the government and were nationalists ; and communists who had remained in the south after the partition and regrouping of 1954 as well as those who had since come from the north, together with local peasants.

" In June 1969, the alliance merged with the NLF to form a " Provisional Revolutionary Government.

The NLF was merged with the Vietnam Fatherland Front in February 1977.

Chamberlain joined the Liberal denunciations of the Conservative Party's foreign policy in the 1880 general election, and Gladstone returned as Prime Minister with assistance from the NLF.

When the main NLF operation began the next morning, the offensive was countrywide in scope and well coordinated, with more than 80, 000 communist troops striking more than 100 towns and cities, including 36 of 44 provincial capitals, five of the six autonomous cities, 72 of 245 district towns, and the southern capital.

The insurgency itself was conducted by the CPNLAF, the Cambodian People's National Liberation Armed Forces: they were backed by both the People's Army of Vietnam ( PAVN ) and the National Liberation Front ( NLF, better known as the Viet Cong ), who occupied parts of Cambodia as part of their ongoing war with the South Vietnamese.

False rumors and forged documents were circulated to make it appear that the Communist Chinese were supplying the NLF with defective weapons and ammunition.

The area consisted of a mass centre of Viet Cong logistics and headquarters, with some of the most high-ranking NLF officials stationed there.

Simultaneously, Sihanouk lost the support of Cambodia's conservatives as a result of his failure to come to grips with the deteriorating economic situation ( exacerbated by the loss of rice exports, most of which went to the PAVN / NLF ) and with the growing communist military presence.

US troops believed that Vietnamese traditions held the symbolism of the spade to mean death and ill-fortune and in a bid to scare away NLF ( Viet Cong ) soldiers without a firefight, it was common practice to leave an ace of spades on the bodies of killed Vietnamese and even to litter the forested grounds and fields with the card.

Looking to improve performance with the latest possible features, he selected the new NASA NLF 0215-F airfoil designed by Dan Somers at Langley.

One of the largest hurdles to effective negotiation was the fact that North Vietnam and its ally in South Vietnam, the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam ( NLF, or Viet Cong ), refused to recognize the government of South Vietnam ; with equal persistence, the government in Saigon refused to acknowledge the legitimacy of the NLF.

If a suspected NLF member was found guilty, he or she could be held in prison for two years, with renewable two-year sentences totaling up to six years.

According to MACV Directive 381-41, the intent of Phoenix was to attack the NLF with a " rifle shot rather than a shotgun approach to target key political leaders, command / control elements and activists in the VCI.