Tatmadaw
Sign in to saveThe Tatmadaw, also known as the Sit-Tat, is the armed forces of Myanmar (formerly Burma). It is administered by the Ministry of Defence and composed of the Myanmar Army, the Myanmar Navy and the Myanmar Air Force. Auxiliary services include the Myanmar Police Force, the Border Guard Forces, the Myanmar Coast Guard, and the People's Militia Units. Since independence in 1948, the Tatmadaw has faced significant ethnic insurgencies, especially in Chin, Kachin, Kayin, Kayah, and Shan states. General Ne Win took control of the country in a 1962 coup d'état, attempting to build an autarkic society ca
Key facts
- National military.name
- Tatmadaw
- National military.motto
- ()
- National military.branches
- Myanmar Police Force
- National military.headquarters
- Naypyidaw, Myanmar
- National military.commander in chief
- General Ye Win Oo
- National military.commander in chief_title
- Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services
- National military.chief minister
- General Kyaw Swar Lin
- National military.chief minister_title
- Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services
- National military.chief_of_staff
- General Ko Ko Oo
- National military.chief_of_staff_title
- Chief of the General Staff
- National military.minister
- General Maung Maung Aye
- National military.minister_title
- Minister of Defence
- National military.age
- 18 years of age
- National military.conscription
- 18–45 years of age (male) 18–35 years of age (female) 2 years (during peacetime) 3 years (for people with professions) 5 years (during emergencies)
- National military.active
- estimates vary, from 100,000 to 356,000 active personnel
- National military.reserve
- 18,998 23 battalions of Border Guard Force (7498 personnel) 46 groups of People's Militia Groups and Regional People's Militia Groups (3500 personnel) 5 corps of University Training Corps (8000 personnel)
- National military.amount
- $2.7 billion (2023)
- National military.percent_GDP
- 4% (2014)
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40 sectionsContents
- Name
- History
- Burmese monarchy
- British Burma (1885–1948)
- Post-independence
- Reorganisation in 1956
- Caretaker government
- 1962 coup d'état
- 1988 coup d'état
- Political reforms (2008–2020)
- 2021 coup d'état and aftermath
- Budget
- Doctrine
- Post-independence/civil war era (1948–1958)
- Kuomintang invasion/Burma Socialist Programme Party era (1958–1988)
- SLORC/SPDC era (1988–2010)
- Organisational, command and control structure
- Before 1988
- 1988 to 2005
- 2005 to 2010
- Service branches
- Myanmar Army ({{lang|my|Tatmadaw Kyee}})
- Myanmar Air Force ({{lang|my|Tatmadaw Lay}})
- Myanmar Navy ({{lang|my|Tatmadaw Yay}})
- Myanmar Police Force ({{lang|my|Myanmar Ye Tat Hpwe}})
- Rank structure
- Commissioned officer ranks
- Other ranks
- Air Defence
- Military intelligence
- Defence industries
- Political representation in Myanmar's legislature
- House of Nationalities ({{lang|my|Amyotha Hluttaw}})
- House of Representatives ({{lang|my|Pyithu Hluttaw}})
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Citations
- Sources
- External links
The Tatmadaw, also known as the Sit-Tat, is the armed forces of Myanmar (formerly Burma). It is administered by the Ministry of Defence and composed of the Myanmar Army, the Myanmar Navy and the Myanmar Air Force. Auxiliary services include the Myanmar Police Force, the Border Guard Forces, the Myanmar Coast Guard, and the People's Militia Units. Since independence in 1948, the Tatmadaw has faced significant ethnic insurgencies, especially in Chin, Kachin, Kayin, Kayah, and Shan states. General Ne Win took control of the country in a 1962 coup d'état, attempting to build an autarkic society called the Burmese Way to Socialism. Following the violent repression of nationwide protests in 1988, the military agreed to free elections in 1990, but ignored the resulting victory of the National League for Democracy and imprisoned its leader Aung San Suu Kyi. The 1990s also saw the escalation of the conflict involving Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine State due to RSO attacks on the Tatmadaw forces, which saw the Rohingya minority facing oppression and, starting in 2017, genocide.
In 2008, the Tatmadaw again rewrote Myanmar's constitution, installing the pro-junta Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) in the 2010 elections, which were boycotted by most opposition groups. Political reforms over the next half-decade culminated in a sweeping NLD victory in the 2015 election; after the USDP lost another election in 2020, the Tatmadaw annulled the election and deposed the civilian government. The Tatmadaw has been widely accused by international organizations of human rights violation and crimes against humanity; including ethnic cleansing, political repression, torture, sexual assault, war crimes, extrajudicial punishments (including summary executions) and massacre of civilians involved in peaceful political demonstrations. The Tatmadaw has long operated as a state within a state.