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A research team was also formed at General Staff Office within the War Office to study defence capabilities and militia formations of neighbouring countries. The new doctrine of total people's war, and the strategy of anti-guerrilla warfare for counterinsurgency and guerrilla warfare for foreign invasion, were designed to be appropriate for Burma.
Operation 1107 (Burmese: ၁၁၀၇ စစ်ဆင်ရေး) is an ongoing joint military operation launched on 7 November 2023, by the Karenni National People's Liberation Front, Karenni Army, and Karenni Nationalities Defence Force against the Tatmadaw military junta in Myanmar, during the Myanmar civil war.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 28 January 2025. Ground forces branch of the armed forces of Myanmar "Burmese Army" redirects here. For other uses, see Burma Army (disambiguation). Myanmar Army တပ်မတော် (ကြည်း) (Burmese) lit. ' Tatmadaw (Kyi) ' 'Armed Forces (Army)' Emblem of the Myanmar Army [a] Founded 1945 ...
The Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services (Burmese: တပ်မတော်ကာကွယ်ရေးဦးစီးချုပ်, romanized: Tatmadaw Kakweyay Uzigyoke) is the supreme commander of the Tatmadaw, the armed forces of Myanmar.
The People's Defence Force [a] is the armed wing of the National Unity Government (NUG) in Myanmar.The armed wing was formed by the NUG from youths and pro-democracy activists on 5 May 2021 in response to the coup d'état that occurred on 1 February 2021 that put the military junta and their armed wing the Tatmadaw in power. [15]
In October 2023, the Yangon-based Institute for Strategy and Policy wrote that the Tatmadaw had committed 22 massacres in the country since their 2021 coup d'état, defining a massacre as "the killing of 10 or more civilians at once". [4] During the anti-junta forces's Operation 1027 offensive, war crimes and abuses by the Tatmadaw escalated. [2]
The 3BA had been waging a low-level insurgency since 2020, and had helped the AA during their offensives fending off the Tatmadaw during the Rohingya genocide in 2017 and 2018. [2] At the start of the coup d'etat, many other ethnic armed organizations across Myanmar had fought back against the Tatmadaw since day one, although the 3BA was in a ...
The Kachin Independence Army's (KIA) offensive in Kachin State, known unofficially as Operation 0307 (after the date it began), is an ongoing military operation against the Tatmadaw military junta of Myanmar which began on 7 March 2024.