A Change of Guard

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Saturday 29 January 2011

Borders quiet as Cambodian troops and tanks arrived at the front line

Cambodian tanks and armoured personnel carriers headed toward the Khmer-Thai border front line.

By Khmerization
Source: CEN

The military situation near Preah Vihear temple is quiet as hundreds of Cambodian troops and military hardware had arrived in the area this Saturday morning. However, both sides remain on high alert.

Reports from Preah Vihear at 9 a.m this morning indicated that the military situations from Ta Moan and Ta Krabey temples in Oddar Meanchey province to Preah Vihear temple in Preah Vihear province have not changed, but the Cambodian military is on high alert due to the threats by Thai troops that they will march to Wat Keo Sekha Kirisvarak to dismantle the pagoda gate, pull down the Cambodian flag and fly the Thai flag instead.

At the same time, hundreds of Cambodian troops, tanks, armoured personnel carriers and missile launchers had arrived in Siem Reap town in the early morning and are expected to arrive at the Preah Vihear front line later in the morning.

The situation at the front line was described as quiet as the Thai side has not repeated their threats to forcibly remove the Cambodian flag after Cambodia had initially rejected their demand to remove the flag. However, Cambodians have strongly warned that they will use the self-defence rights if Thai troops crossed the border to forcibly remove the flag.

At the same time, DAP News had reported that Thailand's INN News agency has reported that thousands of Thai yellow shirted protesters planned to force their way into the Cambodian embassy compound in Bangkok and burn down the embassy buildings. Heavily armed Thai security forces had been deployed around the embassy buildings and had set up metal fences and road blocks as well as access to the embassy.

The tensions reached boiling point on Thursday after 100 Thai troops had sneaked in at night to occupy Ta Krabey temple. They left at 2 p.m the next day after the Cambodian troops had confronted them. There are also reports that on Thursday night, about 8 to 9 truckloads of Thai troops had been trucked in to the front line at Sombok Khmum, 300 metres from Preah Vihear temple.

At the Thai side of the border opposite Oddar Meanchey's Tropeang Prasat district, there are reports that at 4 p.m on Friday the Thai Army, without informing the Cambodian side before hand, had sent in 400 troops from the 6th Division, fully equipped with battle gears. However, the Thai side later claimed that those troops were sent to the area to take part in the a military drill.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Damn them sneaky Thai's bastard son of a bitch. Kick their ass til kingdom come.

Anonymous said...

Warfare is the greatest affair of state, the basis of life and death, the way to survival or extinction. It must be thoroughly pondered and analyzed. Therefore, structure it and evaluate it comparatively through estimations and seek out it's true nature.

As you now know that our leaders' task is to unite the people and make them follow the ruler, then they will die with him, they will live with him and not fear of danger, and as we all clearly see, our leaders in general have encompassed the wisdom, credibility, courage, strictness, and they do understand the laws for military organization and military discipline very well.

As you have heard "The wars win or lose before we ever fought" or another word "evaluating the enemy, subjugating the enemy's army without fighting is the true pinnacle of excellence". If you understand that then you will never blame our leaders for what strategy they have been using vis-a-vis Thailand's military bully. The basic strategy in warfare is to focus upon manipulating the enemy, creating the opportunity for an easy victory, and then applying maximum power at the appropriate moment. Avoiding strong forces is not cowardice, but wisdom, for it is self-defeating to fight when and where there is no advantages, like Sun Tzu's "The Art of War". All of you should have one of these books. He said "One who knows when he can fight, and when he can not fight, will be victorious. One who knows themselves and knows the enemy will not be endangered in a hundred engagements".

As we clearly see, initial estimations show that our gov't does not have or gain more advantage to the nation for going to war right now. Am I right?

The greatest military commanders have always frequently thought and identified solely with the common strategy of "Deceit and Deception". That's the strategy that they will be using in any warfare. Warfare must be viewed as a matter of deception, of constantly creating false appearances, spreading disinformation, and employing trickery and deceit. When imaginatively created and effectively implemented, the enemy will neither know where to attack nor what formations to employ, and will accordingly be prone to making fatal errors. How Deception does it like this if the enemies have greater number of forces full of strength? We avoid them and wait until we create chaos or weakness within the enemy's rank first. If the enemies' unity caused them to be separated, attack where they are unprepared.

Go forth where they will not expect it. If we found ourselves or estimated we are in advantageous position, destroy them. These are ways the military strategists devised to obtain their victories. They can not be spoken of in advance. As all of you have seen, the USA lost war, not on the battlefields in Vietnam, but in the war room in Washington DC. In direct battles, US Army's power machine have sought to obtain victory in every combat, but the press and the people in Washington have opposed the war. They demonstrated and kept on putting pressures on the Gov't to withdraw the US troops from Vietnam.

Now you clearly see war, win or lose, is not about military power, it's about deception, using our brain. Am I right?

Anonymous said...

Khmer will fight thia son of the bitch, believe me Khmer do have a gut to fight these Thai invaders, come on if these thai want to see action..

Anonymous said...

Cambodia must let Thailand know that Cambodia is no longer weak, cambodia must continue upgrading her military equipped, cambodia will not allow Thailand keep pushing to corner, taunting, mocking on our poor soldier/people anymore...Time to show Thailand that khmer will kick your ass back...to south china sea!