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Royal Engineers and Military Logistics from Britain to Burma and India in World War II (2022)
Book Chapter
Charney, M. W. (2022). Royal Engineers and Military Logistics from Britain to Burma and India in World War II. In A. Kumar, & K. Roy (Eds.), Warfare and Society in British India, 1757–1947. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003347989-13

Recent work on military logistics in India during World War II have focused on the mobilisation of supply for the war effort per se, the technical operations of the railways and their impact on training railway operating companies in India, and the e... Read More about Royal Engineers and Military Logistics from Britain to Burma and India in World War II.

The Rise of the Military in Myanmar and What Comes Next: The Decline of a Military Machine? (2022)
Journal Article
Charney, M. W. (2022). The Rise of the Military in Myanmar and What Comes Next: The Decline of a Military Machine?

As a result of the many dated and often partisan takes on the Myanmar military, combined with the lack of access to the institution, and a sustained effort by the military to present itself, unrealistically, as a bearer of precolonial royal and milit... Read More about The Rise of the Military in Myanmar and What Comes Next: The Decline of a Military Machine?.

Military Technology and Mughal Warfare in the South Asian Context (2022)
Book Chapter
Charney, M. W. (2022). Military Technology and Mughal Warfare in the South Asian Context. In R. M. Eaton, & R. Sreenivasan (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Mughal World (c4.s1-c4.n62). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190222642.013.4

This chapter examines the entrance of the Mughal army onto the North Indian plains and the successful military expansion that built the subcontinent’s largest precolonial empire. This success was due to both the early Mughals’ adoption of firearms an... Read More about Military Technology and Mughal Warfare in the South Asian Context.

The Southeast Asian Historical Commons (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Charney, M. W. (2022, April). The Southeast Asian Historical Commons. Presented at Let’s know our history – ASEAN -- A Webinar of PPI Jerman (Indonesian Students Association in Germany) and ASEAN Youth Organization Germany, Zoom

We historians have tended to give the European colonisers agency in everything until the rise of nationalist parties and leaders in the 1920s and 1930s. I think this is wrong. I think the main impact of the colonial period was not actually deprived a... Read More about The Southeast Asian Historical Commons.

Why is Burma Headed the Way it is Now? (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Charney, M. W. (2022, March). Why is Burma Headed the Way it is Now?. Presented at SOAS British Red Cross Society Myanmar Advocacy Week Talk with Prof. Michael W. Charney and Dr. Tharaphi Than, Brunei Lecture Theatre, SOAS, University of London

The events in Myanmar that everyone seems to want to know about are the coup of 1 February 2021, the arrest and trial of Aung San Suu Kyi, the CDM and now civil war, the Ethnic Armies, and the NUG, and the relationship of the situation in Myanmar to... Read More about Why is Burma Headed the Way it is Now?.

How is the Russian Invasion of the Ukraine Impacting Asia and its Future? (2022)
Digital Artefact
Charney, M. W. (2022). How is the Russian Invasion of the Ukraine Impacting Asia and its Future?. [Blog post]

There may also be darker clouds ahead for the US in Asia. The region that has often been suspicious of Chinese expansionism and the underlying motives and impact of the BRI as well as its territorial claims to the South China Sea and it once welcomed... Read More about How is the Russian Invasion of the Ukraine Impacting Asia and its Future?.

What's Happening in Myanmar? (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Charney, M. W. (2022, March). What's Happening in Myanmar?. Presented at SOAS British Red Cross and Myanmar Society for Myanmar Advocacy week, SOAS, Brunei Gallery