Myanmar Army Combat Losses: Jan – Jun 2025

Reading Time: 4 minutes Six months into 2025, the Tatmadaw faces its gravest attrition since the 2021 coup. Open-source monitoring indicates that the junta now controls barely one-fifth of Myanmar’s municipalities, a drop from roughly one-third at the start of 2024, after losing Lashio, large parts of Rakhine, and swathes of Bago and Kachin states. Field reporting from Irrawaddy, Myanmar Now and local resistance channels records more than 1,900 regime fatalities, over 450 captured, and at least 2,600 wounded between January 1 and May 31. Examples include 27 killed in a single Mandalay ambush in March and 105 regime personnel and family members killed by their own air strike on an AA detention site in January. Given the many unreported rural clashes, BDMilitary’s S-2 section assesses total junta combat losses for the period at 3,000–3,500 KIA/WIA and 600+ PoWs, a 30 % increase over the same period in 2024. Leadership