Regional Military Commands (RMC)
For better command and communication, the Tatmadaw formed Regional Military Commands (တိုင်း စစ်ဌာနချုပ်) structure in 1958. Until 1961, there were only two regional commands, they were supported by 13 Infantry brigades and an infantry division. In October 1961, new regional military commands were opened and leaving only two independent infantry brigades. In June 1963, the Naypyidaw Command was temporarily formed in Yangon with the deputy commander and some staff officers drawn from Central Command. It was reorganised and renamed as Yangon Command on 1 June 1965.
A total of 337 infantry and light infantry battalions organised in Tactical Operations Commands, 37 independent field artillery regiments supported by affiliated support units including armoured reconnaissance and tank battalions. RMCs are similar to corps formations in Western armies. The RMCs, commanded by Major General rank officer, are managed through a framework of Bureau of Special Operations (BSOs), which are equivalent to Field Army Group in Western terms.
| Regional Military Command (RMC) | Badge | States & Divisions | Headquarters | Strength |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern Command
(မြောက်ပိုင်းတိုင်းစစ်ဌာနချုပ်) |
Kachin State | Myitkyina | 33 Infantry Battalions | |
| North Eastern Command
(အရှေ့မြောက်ပိုင်းတိုင်းစစ်ဌာနချုပ်) |
Northern Shan State | Lashio | 30 Infantry Battalions | |
| Eastern Command
(အရှေ့ပိုင်းတိုင်းစစ်ဌာနချုပ်) |
Southern Shan State | Taunggyi | 42 Infantry Battalions including 16× Light Infantry Battalions under Regional Operation Command (ROC) Headquarters at Loikaw |
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| South Eastern Command
(အရှေ့တောင်တိုင်းစစ်ဌာနချုပ်) |
Mon and Kayin (Karen) States | Mawlamyaing (Moulmein) | 36 Infantry Battalions | |
| Southern Command
(တောင်ပိုင်းတိုင်းစစ်ဌာနချုပ်) |
Bago and Magwe Divisions | Toungoo | 27 × Infantry Battalions | |
| South Western Command
(အနောက်တောင်တိုင်းစစ်ဌာနချုပ်) |
Ayeyarwady Division (Irrawaddy Division) | Pathein (Bassein) | 11 × Infantry Battalions | |
| Western Command
(အနောက်ပိုင်းတိုင်းစစ်ဌာနချုပ်) |
Rakhine (Arakan) and Chin States | Ann | 33 × Infantry Battalions | |
| North Western Command
(အနောက်မြောက်တိုင်းစစ်ဌာနချုပ်) |
Sagaing Division | Monywa | 25 × Infantry Battalions | |
| Yangon Command
(ရန်ကုန်တိုင်းစစ်ဌာနချုပ်) |
Yangon Division | Mayangone Township-Kone-Myint-Thar | 11 × Infantry Battalions | |
| Coastal Region Command
(ကမ်းရိုးတန်းတိုင်းစစ်ဌာနချုပ်) |
Tanintharyi Division (Tenassarim Division) | Myeik (Mergui) | 43 Infantry Battalions including battalions under 2 MOC based at Tavoy |
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| Triangle Region Command
(တြိဂံတိုင်းစစ်ဌာနချုပ်) |
Eastern Shan State | Kyaingtong (Kengtung) | 23 Infantry Battalions | |
| Central Command
(အလယ်ပိုင်းတိုင်းစစ်ဌာနချုပ်) |
Mandalay Division | Mandalay | 17 Infantry Battalions | |
| Naypyidaw Command
(နေပြည်တော်တိုင်းစစ်ဌာနချုပ်) |
Naypyidaw | Pyinmana | Formed in 2006 - ? × Infantry Battalions |
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