Shifting battle: understanding the southern Thai insurgency / Anthony Davis

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: 2006Subject(s): In: Jane's Intelligence Review Vol 18 No 5, May 2006, pp.18-22Summary: Summarises the recent resurgence of unrest in southern Thailand and considers how this differs from earlier periods of unrest in the 1970s and 1980s. Considers the tactics and methods used by the insurgents and the scale of their support base. Concludes that the Thai military has improved coordination but is still only reacting to events, that the violence is unlikely to spread outside the southern provinces, that it will probably continue to be directed at Thai targets, and that there is a serious prospect of conditions in the south deteriorating further.
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Summarises the recent resurgence of unrest in southern Thailand and considers how this differs from earlier periods of unrest in the 1970s and 1980s. Considers the tactics and methods used by the insurgents and the scale of their support base. Concludes that the Thai military has improved coordination but is still only reacting to events, that the violence is unlikely to spread outside the southern provinces, that it will probably continue to be directed at Thai targets, and that there is a serious prospect of conditions in the south deteriorating further.

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