PLAF

Proper noun

1. 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...
   • 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...