Myanmar

Insurgent Relief and Assistance Teams: The Free Burma Rangers Organize-Train-Equip-Sustain Model

SWJED — Tue, 21 Aug 2018 12:48:15 +0000

Insurgent Relief and Assistance Teams: The Free Burma Rangers Organize-Train-Equip-Sustain Model

Insurgents have a symbiotic relationship with their popular support base. The people provide money, food/supplies, new recruits, and intelligence while the insurgents provide protection, advancement of social, economic, and political aims, and social services, e.g., education and health care. Oppressive regimes attempt to separate the insurgents from their popular support base, that is according to Mao Zedong, to dry up/divert the water (popular support base) in which the fish (insurgents) swim. The FBR organize-train-equip model design is worthy of study by the unconventional warfare community for its potential applicability to support insurgences through strengthening the bonds and rapport between insurgents and their popular support base.

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The Rohingya Crisis: A Failing Counterinsurgency

SWJED — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 04:16:28 +0000

The Rohingya Crisis: A Failing Counterinsurgency

The most significant weakness of the counterinsurgency efforts is that the Myanmar government has not addressed any of the root causes driving the ARSA insurgency. The Rohingya Muslims continue to be classified as stateless people due their lack of citizenship within Myanmar and the limited and nearly impossible methods for seeking naturalization or repatriation.

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Socio-Economic Counterinsurgency in Burma

SWJED — Mon, 29 Jan 2018 06:15:47 +0000

Socio-Economic Counterinsurgency in Burma

The “Bamarization” and militarization of the Burmese government gave rise to a proliferation of insurgent ethnic armed organizations and continuous conflicts.

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Sharing the Wealth: Burma’s Post-Military Rule and Natural Resource Governance

Peter J. Munson — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 09:30:00 +0000

Sharing the Wealth: Burma’s Post-Military Rule and Natural Resource Governance Peter J. Munson Fri, 10/26/2012 - 5:30am

The linkages between democracy, natural resources, and peacemaking as Burma seeks a way to wind down a half-century long complex of ethnic, political, and religious strife.