New Mandala

It is not uncommon to hear confident assertions that the military leadership of Burma are unsophisticated, poorly educated and, here is the real rub, more than a bit thick.  As a batch of assertions I have often thought that these seemed flimsy.  The evidence of successful strategising, if not intellectual accomplishment, is plain to see.
In a recent article, Carnegie Endowment visiting scholar Joshua [...]

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