As the clock ticks down to the Myanmar military’s late-December election gambit, recent months have seen armed resistance to the junta suffer setbacks on multiple fronts.  Notwithstanding sweeping popular rejection of fig-leaf polling crafted to entrench continued army rule, the coming months threaten to further tilt the battlefield balance against opposition forces. In the crosshairs […] The post Arakan Army may have peaked in Myanmar’s civil war appeared first on Asia Times .