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n. A communist-based military organization, often linked to a communist political party; the armed forces of a communist state.
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People's Army is/was the title of the armed forces of several different countries.
- Czechoslovak People's Army
- People's Army of Poland
- Vietnam People's Army
- National People's Army, East Germany
- Yugoslav People's Army
- Korean People's Army
- New People's Army, the Philippines
- People's Liberation Army
Also:
- People's Army of Komuch - Officially the People's Army of the Committee of Members of the Constituent Assembly (Russian: Народная армия КОМУЧа) - an anti-Bolshevik army during the Russian Civil War, which fought at June–September 1918 in Volga Region.
- People's Army for the Restoration of Democracy (CAR) - a rebel group operating in the northwest Central African Republic
- People's Army for the Restoration of the Republic and Democracy - another rebel group operating in the northwest Central African Republic
- Volkssturm (People's Storm) - the German national militia of the last months of World War II.
Usage examples of "people's army".
The Russians, too, would think twice before giving the People's Army any sophisticated weapon.
Bong-Bong Gad explained to me, using a coy local euphemism for NPA, or New People's Army, a supposedly revolutionary, but evidently somewhat feckless guerilla organization descended in a direct line from the Hukbalahaps, or Huks, the fighters who resisted the Nipponese occupation (but not so desultorily) in WW2.
A middle-aged man is intoning strange grey slogans as the monitor viewpoint pans back to take in the mobile might of the People's Army.
Semipalatinski was less than two hundred miles from the Chinese border, and when a People's Army Patrol got lost and ended up inside the Soviet Union, the school sent out an urgent message to the Fifteenth Red Rifle Division that the KGB unit would handle the Chinese patrol, while the Rifle Division sealed off their escape.