The South Vietnamese Popular Force was a part-time local militia of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam during the Vietnam War. The South Vietnamese Popular Force mainly protected homes and villages i
Female South Vietnamese Popular Force members on patrol in Bến Cát District
Carbine training, Popular Forces Training Center, Pleiku, 1 July 1970
During the Vietnam War, the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam, and the People's Army of Vietnam, used a distinctive land warfare strategy to defeat their South Vietnamese Army of the Republic
South Vietnamese Popular Force
…homes and villages in South Vietnam from attacks by the Viet Cong (VC) and later the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN). The Popular Force resembled the Local Force and village-guerrilla level component of the VC, while the Regional Force was a full-time force available for operations within a province. The Popular…
South Vietnamese "fortified hamlet." Early in the war, the VC actually controlled numerous such villages, using them for rest, recruitment and resupply.
Ngô Đình Diệm
By 1964, the VC were attacking in regimental strength with growing success. A VC demolition team even damaged USS Card while pierside.
South Vietnamese forces capture a VC fighter c. 1964