This article originally appeared in History of War magazine issue 149. The border clashes between Thailand and Cambodia in July 2025 originate in the region's colonial era over a hundred years ago. At least 12 Thai nationals and an unknown number of ...

A statue of the Buddhist goddess Preah Thorani at Wat Prasat Ta Moan is riddled with bullet holes and shrapnel damage inflicted by the Thai air force during the pitched battles fought in late July 2025. As of October 2025, a pitched stand-off continues in ...

It has been painfully slow. More than two weeks have passed, with Thai media largely reporting in a pro-war, cheerleading manner, before a media scholar has only just begun to express concern and gently ask whether Thai media are “reporting the truth or manufacturing conflict”.

Thailand and Cambodia shocked observers by going to war last month. The destructive border conflict doesn’t stem from an upsurge of popular nationalism: the political elites in both countries needed a distraction to shore up their flagging legitimacy.

U.S.-backed talks to end the border war, in which militaries have killed dozens of people and displaced hundreds of thousands, began on Monday in Malaysia. Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim of Malaysia, center, Prime Minister Hun Manet of Cambodia, left, and ...

The Thailand-Cambodia conflict is another possible chance for China’s arms to be displayed as being at least as good as Western—specifically, American—arms. Yet another new war has erupted along the geopolitical ring of fire that is Eurasia’s ...

Brig. Gen Michael Ake, the Land Component Commander for the U.S. Army Washington National Guard, converses with Gen. Songwit Noonpackdee, Thai Chief of Defense Forces in Cha Choeng Sao, Thailand, during Exercise Cobra Gold, Feb. 27, 2025. Credit: Cpl.