In this photo taken in March 2023 members of ethnic rebel group Ta'ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) take part in a training exercise at their base camp in the forest in Myanmar's northern Shan State. (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)

The Myanmar Army is facing unprecedented pressure to respond to the sharpest military reverses it has suffered since the coup of 2021 that have severed the country's overland trade routes to China and seen the loss of a border town.

The latest challenge for a force already overstretched by a multifront civil war follows a co-ordinated insurgent offensive that opened on 27 October across a wide swathe of northeastern Shan State, stretching from Mandalay Region in the west to Kokang on the Chinese border in the east.

In this photo taken in March 2023 members of ethnic rebel group Ta'ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) take part in a training exercise at their base camp in the forest in Myanmar's northern Shan State. (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)

The Myanmar Army is facing unprecedented pressure to respond to the sharpest military reverses it has suffered since the coup of 2021 that have severed the country's overland trade routes to China and seen the loss of a border town.

The latest challenge for a force already overstretched by a multifront civil war follows a co-ordinated insurgent offensive that opened on 27 October across a wide swathe of northeastern Shan State, stretching from Mandalay Region in the west to Kokang on the Chinese border in the east.

In this photo taken in March 2023 members of ethnic rebel group Ta'ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) take part in a training exercise at their base camp in the forest in Myanmar's northern Shan State. (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)

The Myanmar Army is facing unprecedented pressure to respond to the sharpest military reverses it has suffered since the coup of 2021 that have severed the country's overland trade routes to China and seen the loss of a border town.

The latest challenge for a force already overstretched by a multifront civil war follows a co-ordinated insurgent offensive that opened on 27 October across a wide swathe of northeastern Shan State, stretching from Mandalay Region in the west to Kokang on the Chinese border in the east.

In this photo taken in March 2023 members of ethnic rebel group Ta'ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) take part in a training exercise at their base camp in the forest in Myanmar's northern Shan State. (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)

The Myanmar Army is facing unprecedented pressure to respond to the sharpest military reverses it has suffered since the coup of 2021 that have severed the country's overland trade routes to China and seen the loss of a border town.

The latest challenge for a force already overstretched by a multifront civil war follows a co-ordinated insurgent offensive that opened on 27 October across a wide swathe of northeastern Shan State, stretching from Mandalay Region in the west to Kokang on the Chinese border in the east.

In this photo taken in March 2023 members of ethnic rebel group Ta'ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) take part in a training exercise at their base camp in the forest in Myanmar's northern Shan State. (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)

The Myanmar Army is facing unprecedented pressure to respond to the sharpest military reverses it has suffered since the coup of 2021 that have severed the country's overland trade routes to China and seen the loss of a border town.

The latest challenge for a force already overstretched by a multifront civil war follows a co-ordinated insurgent offensive that opened on 27 October across a wide swathe of northeastern Shan State, stretching from Mandalay Region in the west to Kokang on the Chinese border in the east.

In this photo taken in March 2023 members of ethnic rebel group Ta'ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) take part in a training exercise at their base camp in the forest in Myanmar's northern Shan State. (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)

The Myanmar Army is facing unprecedented pressure to respond to the sharpest military reverses it has suffered since the coup of 2021 that have severed the country's overland trade routes to China and seen the loss of a border town.

The latest challenge for a force already overstretched by a multifront civil war follows a co-ordinated insurgent offensive that opened on 27 October across a wide swathe of northeastern Shan State, stretching from Mandalay Region in the west to Kokang on the Chinese border in the east.