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Since most of the members were Communist, they wanted help from Chinese Communists but when Tha-khin Aung San and a partner secretly went to China for help, they only met with a Japanese general and made an alliance with Japanese Army. In the late 1930s, during the period of British rule, a few Myanmar organizations or parties formed an alliance named Burma's Htwet-Yet (Liberation) Group, one of them being Dobama Asiayone.

2.12 Office of the Chief of Air Defenceīrief history British and Japanese rule.

2.11.1 Armoured Operations Command (AROC).

2.10.1 Artillery Operations Command (AOC).

2.9.1 No(1) Missile Operational Command MOC(1).

2.8 Missile, Artillery and armoured units.

2.4.1 Commanders of Regional Military Commands.

The Government Gazette reported that 1.8 trillion kyat (about US$2 billion), or 23.6 percent of the 2011 budget was for military expenditures. The ages for professionals are up to 45 for men and 35 for women for three years service as commissioned and non-commissioned officers. In 2011, following a transition from military government to civilian parliamentary government, the Myanmar Army imposed a military draft on all citizens: all males from age 18 to 35 and all females from 18 to 27 years of age can be drafted into military service for two years as enlisted personnel in time of national emergency. The highest rank in the Myanmar Army is Senior General, equivalent to field marshal in Western armies and is currently held by Min Aung Hlaing after being promoted from Vice-Senior General.

The force is headed by the Commander-in-Chief of Myanmar Army ( ကာကွယ်ရေးဦးစီးချုပ်(ကြည်း)), currently Vice-Senior General Soe Win, concurrently Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Defence Services ( ဒုတိယ တပ်မတော်ကာကွယ်ရေးဦးစီးချုပ်), with Senior General Min Aung Hlaing as the Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services ( တပ်မတော်ကာကွယ်ရေးဦးစီးချုပ်). The army has extensive combat experience in fighting insurgents in rough terrain, considering it has been conducting non-stop counter-insurgency operations against ethnic and political insurgents since its inception in 1948. The Myanmar Army had a troop strength of around 350,000 as of 2006.

The Myanmar Army maintains the second largest active force in Southeast Asia after the People's Army of Vietnam. The Myanmar Army ( Burmese: တပ်မတော်(ကြည်း), pronounced ) is the largest branch of the Armed Forces ( Tatmadaw) of Myanmar (Burma) and has the primary responsibility of conducting land-based military operations. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Burmese script.