The military council has issued an emergency directive during a military meeting held in Naypyidaw on July 15, aimed at creating division and distrust among revolutionary forces fighting against the military. The directive outlines strategies to encourage mass surrenders of People’s Defense Force (PDF) members and to weaken the armed resistance movement through various psychological operations.
According to the directive, local military battalions and units are instructed to recruit resistance leaders through various incentives and opportunities while working to diminish their fighting spirit. Furthermore, military commanders in operational areas are ordered to investigate and exploit the strengths, weaknesses, and internal conflicts within revolutionary groups. This intelligence is to be used as a basis for recruitment and psychological operations against these groups.
The directive specifically instructs that any conflicts between revolutionary groups should be immediately reported to the military’s public relations and psychological warfare department. These incidents are to be rapidly disseminated through social media platforms to create further division among armed groups. This reveals the military council’s strategy of using psychological warfare and disinformation campaigns to fragment the revolutionary forces. The directive demonstrates how the military council is actively working to undermine the unity of resistance groups through psychological operations and the spread of divisive information.
