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Myanmar’s armed forces, the Tatmadaw, are increasingly beleaguered, according to a variety of sources including the influential Council on Foreign Relations. Joshua Kurlantzick, an author and senior Southeast Asia Fellow for the New York-based thinktank, wrote in his log on March 11 that “the situation has only gotten more dire for the Tatmadaw, and the…