Xu Qiliang, the former deputy chairman of the Central Military Commission, the main command body of the People’s Liberation ...

In a recent interview, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley declared that the People’s Liberation Army had transformed “from a peasant-based infantry army that was very ...

Quispe’s peasant army was equipped with sticks and rifles from the 1932-35 Chaco War against Paraguay, but fought no engagements. Eventually, all his “troops” went home to their villages.

SEOUL (Reuters) - As a North Korean army signaler near the tense sea border with the South, Lee So-yeon was given live ammunition and a steel helmet during a 1993 crisis, but soon found herself ...

Zapata, south of the capital, did not have this advantage and, both by preference and necessity, led a genuinely peasant army. The number of Zapatista forces fluctuated according to the ...

Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu accused the Guatemalan army of carrying out the killings. “This is a massacre, and the army is responsible,” Menchu, a Guatemalan Mayan who won the ...

Pilot Amy Johnson lands after a record flight of 12 days, 15 hours from London to Cape Town and back. 1940 McDonald’s opens ...

Red Army had to admit that ineptitude, economic mismanagement and 'criminal' seizure of property had been amongst the causes of peasant dissatisfaction. The journal recognised the effect on the morale ...