Myanmar CrisisShrinking Myanmar military struggles to quash resistance
Active troops down by 21,000, analyst says, as violence escalates
Myanmar's military may have as few as 70,000 combat troops, well below previous estimates in the hundreds of thousands, according to a report in May.
BANGKOK/YANGON -- Two months on from dissolving Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy, Myanmar's military remains mired in a conflict with armed pro-democracy resistance groups amid a shifting balance of power that looks less tilted in the military's favor.