The National Unity Government did not deliver a coordinated nationwide offensive strategy in Myanmar by the end of 2025. This follows a pledge made by the shadow government in late 2025 to launch such an operation.

Between 2021 and 2023, rebel forces took control of half of Myanmar from the Tatmadaw, the official name for the Myanmar military. From 2021 to 2024, Myanmar's pro-democracy resistance gained momentum through a nationwide insurgency, utilizing drone tactics. The Tatmadaw staged a coup on February 1, 2021, against Aung San Suu Kyi's democratically elected government, which triggered an armed uprising known as the Spring Revolution.

The resistance alliance includes local militias called People's Defense Forces and over half a dozen ethnic armed groups, alongside the National Unity Government. Established ethnic armed groups have integrated with newer, largely Bamar People's Defense Forces, and these ethnic armed groups train, equip, and command these militia units. However, political divisions within the broader Bamar resistance and concerns among some ethnic armed groups about a Bamar-dominated National Unity Government marginalizing their autonomy have prevented a coherent national framework from emerging.

Local resistance forces in Chin, Kachin, Karenni, Karen, Mandalay region, Magway region, Sagaing region, and northern Shan state were unable to withstand junta counteroffensives. Large-scale diversionary attacks that could have relieved pressure on these local resistance forces did not materialize. The Three Brotherhood Alliance is a coalition of ethnic armed groups, and groups like the Arakan Army and the Kachin Independence Army regularly operate outside their own territories. Other ethnic armed groups tend to focus military operations on their respective territories and do not strike into the Bamar heartland. The junta targeted smaller resistance formations with a divide-and-conquer strategy.