Notes
1. This is also the subject of a chapter by the Macquarie University economist Sean Turnell in the latest publication of the Australian National University Myanmar/Burma Update conference papers, Ruling Myanmar: From Cyclone Nargis to National Elections, edited by Nick Cheesman, Monique Skidmore and Trevor Wilson (Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2010).
2. See Maung Aung Myoe's impressive Building the Tatamadaw: Myanmar's Armed Forces Since 1948 (Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2009).