Myanmar’s military government has acknowledged that it withdrew its forces from a key city on the northeastern border with China after it was taken over by an alliance of ethnic armed groups it has been battling for months.
It said 2,389 military personnel — including six brigadier generals — and their family members had surrendered by Friday and that all were evacuated to safety.
Damn. Every video I've seen from Myanmar is like three teenagers with one homemade rifle trying to take out individual soldiers in small ambushes. They must have really built up their capabilities for an offensive like this.
It's an extremely interesting conflict from a military perspective since it was the first documented use of 3D-printed firearms in a warzone. Not even to speak of the homemade mortars and artillery.
It's disgusting the indiscriminate murder of civilians that the junta regime resorted to once they began to lose a grip on the country.
It's gone under a qualitative shift recently IMO. For the most part the start of the fighting was presented as the PDFs; with them emerging as a guerilla force with all the ragtag hullabaloo you would expect from a bunch of students transitioning into full-time fighters. Most of these forces have united into broad coalitions with various ethnic rebel groups that have been fighting for decades, have established smuggling operations, etc. Combine that with the massive successes all of them have been having recently they are starting to resemble a more professional fighting force with all that captured equipment--esp. since the 1027 operation.
Can it be categorized as a progressive force? I have no idea. The Communist Party of Myanmar exists again... And it has its armed wing in one of the alliances, but not in a leading capacity.
Damn. Every video I've seen from Myanmar is like three teenagers with one homemade rifle trying to take out individual soldiers in small ambushes. They must have really built up their capabilities for an offensive like this.
It's an extremely interesting conflict from a military perspective since it was the first documented use of 3D-printed firearms in a warzone. Not even to speak of the homemade mortars and artillery.
It's disgusting the indiscriminate murder of civilians that the junta regime resorted to once they began to lose a grip on the country.
It's gone under a qualitative shift recently IMO. For the most part the start of the fighting was presented as the PDFs; with them emerging as a guerilla force with all the ragtag hullabaloo you would expect from a bunch of students transitioning into full-time fighters. Most of these forces have united into broad coalitions with various ethnic rebel groups that have been fighting for decades, have established smuggling operations, etc. Combine that with the massive successes all of them have been having recently they are starting to resemble a more professional fighting force with all that captured equipment--esp. since the 1027 operation.
Can it be categorized as a progressive force? I have no idea. The Communist Party of Myanmar exists again... And it has its armed wing in one of the alliances, but not in a leading capacity.