The MVAC lacked a clear conventional command and control structure and was to a greater extent a loose arrangement of disparate armed groups aligned in common interests to counter communist guerrillas in their respective areas of operations.

[3] According to Italian General Giacomo Zanussi, "legalized" Chetnik bande of the MVAC which were supplied with 30,000 rifles, 500 machine guns, 100 mortars, 15 pieces of artillery, 250,000 hand grenades, 7 million small arms rounds, and 7,000 to 8,000 pairs of shoes.

[3] By 28 February 1943, approximately 20,514 anti-communist MVAC auxiliaries were recorded by Italian authorities on the territory of the Independent State of Croatia and Montenegro.

[2] In the second half of July 1942, units of the Slovenian Legion of Death joined Italian forces during a major offensive against the communist Partisans.

That same month, armed units in rural areas were formed into the Village Guards (Slovene: Vaške straže) and were included in the MVAC, ultimately becoming the largest grouping among the Italian auxiliaries.

During 1942, at the urging of the Slovene People's Party, around 600 former Royal Yugoslav Army prisoners-of-war (POWs) were released from Italian camps, returning to Slovenia and enlisting with MVAC auxiliaries.

One of these former POWs was Lieutenant Colonel Ernest Peterlin, who upon his return to Slovenia was appointed to command the Ljubljana MVAC unit formed in October 1942.