This book is essential reading for any student of Burma, security in the Asia-Pacific region, China-India relations, or military and strategic priorities in Asia and the world. The key to coming to grips with modern Burma is to understand the country?s armed forces. Although it has dominated all aspects of Burmese life since the 1962 coup, there has been no comprehensive or detailed study of the Tatmadaw as a military institution. Drawing on five years of research in Burma and beyond, including interviews with military specialists and commentators, Andrew Selth has written the first book on the inner workings of the Tatmadaw.Here is a scholarly and objective account of Burma?s strategic posture, its defense policies and threat perceptions; its military doctrine, defense expenditures, arms acquisitions, and combat capabilities. Here are chapters on Burma?s intelligence apparatus, and its suspected uses of chemical and biological weapons. Diagrams and maps illustrate the Tatmadaw?s organization, structure, and order of battle.The author pays particular attention to the dramatic expansion and modernization of t
This addendum to The Clean Power Plan?s Economic Impact shows detailed results for the 48 contiguous states. For each state, the findings present four different expenditure burdens: 1. The current average annual electricity costs relative to 2014 median household income (cost burden) by neighborhood (formally U.S. Census Tracts); 2. The impact on the electricity cost burden by neighborhood if the Clean Power Plan (CPP) is implemented, and consumers do not change their behavior; 3. The impact on the electricity cost burden by neighborhood if the CPP is implemented and consumers economize on their consumption based on the estimated short-term behavioral responses; and 4. The impact on the electricity burden by neighborhood if the CPP is implemented and consumers economize on their consumption based on the estimated long-term behavioral responses. Detailed state maps are provided for each of the four expenditure burdens. County-level information by state can be accessed via an interactive map online at pacificresearch.org