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  2. Myanmar civil war (2021–present) - Wikipedia

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    The Myanmar Civil War (Burmese: မြန်မာ့ပြည်တွင်းစစ်), [n] also known as the Burmese Civil War, Burmese Spring Revolution or People's Defensive War, is an ongoing civil war since 2021.

  3. Myanmar conflict - Wikipedia

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    It is the world's longest ongoing civil war, spanning almost eight decades. [7] [8] [9] In 1940, during World War II, Burmese intellectuals formed the Thirty Comrades, who later established the Burma Independence Army (BIA) to fight against the Allies. Aung San led the State of Burma, switching allegiance to the Allies in mid-1944.

  4. Myanmar Navy - Wikipedia

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    A Myanmar war boat in 1795 Burmese man-of-war, 19th century. The naval arm of the Royal Armed Forces consisted mainly of shallow draft river boats. Its primary missions were to control the Irrawaddy River, and to protect the ships carrying the army to the front.

  5. List of wars involving Myanmar - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of wars that involve Myanmar.Throughout Burmese history many wars had been fought with the ethnic majority Bamar and its neighbors, other Myanmar people such as the Mon people who are the founders of the Hanthawaddy Kingdom and the Rakhine people who are the founders of the Kingdom of Mrauk U as well as other foreign states and ethnicity such as Thailand which has been the ...

  6. Royal Burmese armed forces - Wikipedia

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    The arrival of British forces in Mandalay on 28 November 1885, Third Anglo-Burmese War. The Royal Burmese Army's performance vis-a-vis European forces grew worse as the technology gap grew wider. The greatest obstacle for the Burmese like with many other Southeast Asian kingdoms facing European powers was the European dominance of the seas.

  7. Military history of Myanmar - Wikipedia

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    The war, which claimed the lives of over 70,000 Chinese soldiers and four commanders is sometimes described as "the most disastrous frontier war that the Qing Dynasty had ever waged", [134] and one that "assured Burmese independence and probably the independence of other states in Southeast Asia". [136]

  8. Karen conflict - Wikipedia

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    After the conquest, Burmese continued to resist. The Burmese capital Mandalay was conquered in the Third Anglo-Burmese War in 1885 with help from Karen. Burman in the southern delta then rebelled, leaving the British to proclaim martial law. Missionaries successfully lobbied to recruit more Karen as auxiliaries to put down these rebellions. [42 ...

  9. Anglo-Burmese Wars - Wikipedia

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    The Anglo-Burmese Wars were an armed conflict between two expanding empires, the British Empire and the Konbaung dynasty, that became British India‘s most expensive and longest war, costing 5–13 million pounds sterling (£400 million – £1.1 billion as of 2019) and spanning over 60 years.