Mongolian People's Army

The Mongolian People's Army was the armed force of the Mongolian People's Republic and an institution of the ruling Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party. It was founded in March 1921 as a native communist force under the cavalry commander Damdin Sukhbaatar, first as the People's Militia, and it operated as a secondary army under Soviet Red Army command in the 1920s and during the Second World War. Its names changed over time, from People's Militia to Mongolian People's Revolutionary Army, People's Army and, from 1971, Mongolian People's Army. It fought along the Manchurian border in the 1930s, took part with Soviet troops in the 1939 Battles of Khalkhin Gol and was part of the 1945 Soviet invasion of Manchuria. After the republic ended in 1992 it was reorganized as the Mongolian Armed Forces.