He commands provincial forces in this key border area and speaks Thai.

But this army was greatly diminished because most of the provincial forces had accompanied Lopez.

The elector's troops traditionally were organized into disconnected provincial forces.

Several provincial and tribal forces could also be called on during an emergency, but their reliability was highly questionable.

A further 7,000 police were drawn from 75 provincial forces.

Official strength figures were lacking in 1987, but the main and provincial forces together may have numbered more than 40,000 troops.

In 1987 little authoritative information was available on the deployment and the total strength of the Cambodian provincial forces.

The provincial forces had two missions, military and political.

This arrangement was taken over by the Republic, even though the provincial forces were now merged into a unified federal force.

Ma Hushan directed the defense against the provincial forces.