TACTICAL VICTORY

Eventually a cease fire is agreed with the China (who never declared war on Thailand) and an uneasy truce reigns over the occupied Shan states.

In 1943 parts of northern Malaya and the Kentung and Mongpan regions of Burma are ceded from Burma and Malaya and are occupied by Thai troops until 1945. As time goes by the Thai population comes to resent the Japanese occupation although, despite Chinese and US pressure, the Thai army does not turn on Japanese forces. In 1944 there is a coup and the new civilian government tries to distance itself from Japan... but cannot actually expel the Japanese forces.

However, military operations (apart from some small clashes with various "bandits" in Burma) end....

