Decoding The Arakan Army: Insurgent Strategies And Tactics – Analysis.

eurasiareview
March 30, 2019
By IPCS 
By Angshuman Choudhury*

Emblem of Arakan Army. Source: Wikipedia Commons.

Over the past four months, the Arakan Army (AA)—a Rakhine Ethnic Armed Organisation (EAO)—has emerged as a formidable insurgent actor in western Myanmar, particularly Chin and Rakhine states. The AA’s insurgency is based on a mix of conventional and subversive tactics, aimed at gaining strategic dominance in the short term and political-territorial control in the medium-to-long term. Much of its future strategies and operational design will depend on its relationship with the local population and the frequency and degree of the military’s response.

Myanmar: Arakan Army Is Not A Terrorist Outfit – OpEd

eurasiareview
March 9, 2019

By S. Chandrasekharan

Location of Burma. Source: CIA World Factbook.

It looks that both the Myanmar Government and its Army with the tacit support of China are trying make out that the Arakan Army is deeply in cohort with the terrorist outfit- the ARSA in causing depredations in Rakhine State.

Myanmar: Why Is China On ‘Overdrive’ To Solve The Ethnic Question – OpEd

February 2nd, 2019

By SAAG

                                                                                                                                                Burma / Myanmar

By S. Chandrasekharan

From the flurry of activities of Sun Guoxiang, Special Envoy for Asian Affairs and the Chinese Ambassador at Yangon, it looks that Chinese are in a desperate hurry to solve the question of the ethnic minorities and their armed organisations operating in the Kachin and the Shan areas on the Chinese border.