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  Armed to the teeth, with no battle to fight

  News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 15/07/2017

  » When everyone else is dead, the arms dealers will sip champagne and cuddle Playboy bunnies. Why? "Because everyone else will be busy killing each other," said Yuri Orlov, the arms dealer in Lord of War as portrayed by Nicolas Cage. When his client orders him a shipment of machine guns used in Rambo, Mr Orlov, an award-winning salesperson, asks, "Rambo part 1, 2 or 3?"

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  First they came for those who 'twerk'

  News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 17/06/2017

  » The police this week visited several cultural spaces, to appreciate the art and to mete out censorship. Next they'll give out art prizes -- to those who toe the line and serve the official ideology -- like the propagandistic communist states did in the last century.

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  Fighting the wrong war

  Oped, Editorial, Published on 24/04/2020

  » The fury, and desperation, reflected by people's criticism of the army's arms procurement plan in the face of the Covid-19 outbreak should be taken into account, not suppressed or politicised.

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  Tank splurge beyond pale

  News, Editorial, Published on 07/09/2019

  » At a time when people are feeling the pinch of the economic downturn, the army's recent and planned multi-billion-baht purchases of "refurbished" tanks from the US have provoked the ire of many. The growing criticism is understandable. Taxpayers are still largely kept in the dark over why and how their money is spent on these and other military hardware and weapons listed in the military's post-2014 coup shopping cart.

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  Govt adopts 'defence diplomacy' with China

  News, Wassana Nanuam, Published on 02/03/2017

  » The current military government has adopted "defence diplomacy" when it comes to handling international relations. Such a diplomatic approach has helped it forge closer ties with China, resulting in strengthened cooperation on a new defence and weapons industry in Thailand along with planned purchases of Chinese armaments and armoured vehicles including submarines.

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  Fighting for long-lasting peace

  Oped, Published on 17/01/2024

  » It has been almost 700 days since Russia started its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The brutal war, waged unprovoked against an independent country, has brought devastation, ruin and pain to the Ukrainian people.

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  Prigozhin and the aftermath of Russian folly

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 30/06/2023

  » 'I said to Putin: 'We could waste [Prigozhin], no problem. If not on the first try, then on the second.' I told him: 'Don't do this'," said Aleksander Lukashenko, long-ruling dictator of Belarus, clearly delighted at having upstaged his arrogant Russian counterpart. The worm had turned, and it was the Russian dictator who needed help.

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  Civilian resistance needs West's help, not silence

  News, Published on 28/06/2023

  » Winning the hearts and minds of fellow citizens is a key pillar of any armed resistance.

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  Is Ukraine winning the war too much?

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 06/12/2022

  » When the two most senior military and intelligence officials in Washington make the same obvious error in public three times in three weeks, you have to wonder what they are really up to. Can it just be simple ignorance, or do they have a hidden agenda?

• News & article

  Weapons not needed now

  Oped, Editorial, Published on 30/04/2021

  » Army chief Narongpan Jitkaewtae this week raised eyebrows when he ruled out the possibility that the armed forces would delay or give up part of their arms purchase plan, shrugging off repeated calls by the public for more money from state coffers to be used to battle the impacts from the Covid pandemic.

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