អ្នកជិតខាងល្អបង្កើតរបងល្អ៖ មូលដ្ឋានយុទ្ធសាស្ត្រសម្រាប់កិច្ចព្រមព្រៀងថៃ-វៀតណាម
Both Bangkok and Hanoi share concerns about China’s expanding influence in Laos and Cambodia, a historic arena of strategic competition between the two powers. The latest encroachment by Cambodian troops into the disputed areas along the country’s border with Thailand around the “Emerald Triangle,” resulting in the exchange of fire and the death of a Cambodian soldier in late May, has added to Thailand’s growing two-front insecurity. Besides the emotionally charged nationalist tensions with Cambodia over the question of territorial sovereignty on the eastern border, the threat of spillover from Myanmar’s bloody civil war on the western front has become a new normal. Despite Thailand’s clear superiority in material capabilities, the time and energy needed to deal with these immediate neighbors simultaneously can be deeply draining. As such, easing pressure on one border to focus on the other would benefit Thailand in the long run, and Vietnam – with its own dual-front dilemma and ...