{"product_id":"the-golden-land-ablaze-coups-insurgents-and-the-state-in-myanmar-by-bertil-lintner","title":"The Golden Land Ablaze: Coups, Insurgents and the State in Myanmar by Bertil Lintner","description":"\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"4\"\u003e\u003cb data-path-to-node=\"4\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"\u003eA DEFINITIVE ACCOUNT OF MYANMAR’S STRUGGLE: WHY THE MILITARY JUNTA CANNOT WIN, AND THE NATION CANNOT FIND PEACE.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"5\"\u003eWhen Myanmar’s military generals staged a coup in February 2021, they underestimated the resolve of a nation that had tasted a decade of openness. Three years later, the \"Golden Land\" is caught in an intractable, brutal conflict. Bertil Lintner—one of the world’s most respected journalists and experts on Southeast Asia—presents an incisive, on-the-ground analysis of why the army has failed to re-establish control and why the resistance, despite its bravery, remains fragmented.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"6\"\u003e\u003ci data-path-to-node=\"6\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"\u003eThe Golden Land Ablaze\u003c\/i\u003e moves beyond the headlines to explain the unprecedented nature of this uprising. For the first time, armed resistance has migrated from the ethnic-minority borderlands to the Burmese heartland, embodied by the People’s Defence Forces. Yet, as Lintner deftly illustrates, this is a war defined by a grim stalemate: the military is too heavily armed to be defeated, but too thinly stretched to crush the resistance. With no unified command among the disparate anti-junta groups and an increasingly desperate civilian population caught in the crossfire, Lintner provides the vital context needed to understand one of the most volatile humanitarian crises of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"7\"\u003e\u003cb data-path-to-node=\"7\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"\u003eWhy this book is essential for understanding the crisis:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul data-path-to-node=\"8\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"8,0,0\"\u003e\u003cb data-path-to-node=\"8,0,0\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"\u003eExpert Insight:\u003c\/b\u003e Written by Bertil Lintner, whose deep-rooted knowledge of Myanmar’s political history makes this the most authoritative account of the post-2021 uprising.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"8,1,0\"\u003e\u003cb data-path-to-node=\"8,1,0\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"\u003eNuanced Analysis:\u003c\/b\u003e Unlike superficial reporting, Lintner identifies the complex power dynamics, the limitations of the various resistance groups, and the structural failures of the military junta.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"8,2,0\"\u003e\u003cb data-path-to-node=\"8,2,0\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"\u003eThe Big Picture:\u003c\/b\u003e Explains how decades of ethnic insurgency have converged with a new, popular national movement, changing the nature of conflict in Myanmar forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"8,3,0\"\u003e\u003cb data-path-to-node=\"8,3,0\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"\u003eA Call for Clarity:\u003c\/b\u003e An indispensable guide for readers who want to look past the rhetoric and understand the harsh realities of a nation that neither side can win.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"9\"\u003eFor anyone concerned with geopolitics, human rights, and the future of South-East Asia, \u003ci data-path-to-node=\"9\" data-index-in-node=\"88\"\u003eThe Golden Land Ablaze\u003c\/i\u003e is a sobering, necessary, and brilliant piece of investigative history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BEETLE BOOK SHOP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52424206778651,"sku":null,"price":509.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0686\/2150\/0699\/files\/81VcMHcg3lL._SL1500.jpg?v=1782891643","url":"https:\/\/beetlebookshop.com\/hi\/products\/the-golden-land-ablaze-coups-insurgents-and-the-state-in-myanmar-by-bertil-lintner","provider":"Beetle Book Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}