Junta chief Min Aung Hlaing inspects military troops during a ceremony to mark Myanmar's Armed Forces Day in Nay Pyi Taw on March 27. (AFP)

The military elephant in the room

The armed forces have held power in Myanmar for decades, inflicting untold suffering on its people, but they are hardly understood and their study has been largely neglected by scholars and researchers.

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