Burma in 1995 had 265,000 men in its Army, organized into ten light infantry divisions (one per regional command). There were a total of 3 armored battalions, 223 infantry battalions, 7 artillery battalions and 1 anti-aircraft battalion. They had 23 Comet tanks, 30 Chinese Type 69-II tanks and 105 Chinese T-63 light tanks as well as several hundred Type 85 APC's.
There were also two paramilitary units the People's Police Force of 50,000 men and the People's Militia of 35,000 men.
The basic maneuver and fighting unit is the battalion (or Tat Yinn in Burmese), with the majority of their troops being light infantry.
A regular infantry battalion will have a headquarters unit, five rifle companies (each with three rifle platoons), an administration company that has medical, transport, logistics and signal units, a heavy weapons company that has mortar, machine gun and recoilless rifle platoons with a total of 27 officers and 723 other ranks per establishment.
A light infantry battalion is much smaller having a total strength of only 500 men (officers and other ranks).
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