With the recent victories in the Burmese Liberation War you would think that the Military would be ecstatic! Unfortunately that is not the case, the vast casualties that occurred during these battles have placed the military in a position that needs rectifying. Too many Burmese soldiers had gone off to war and not returned home even if by the Socialist Republic's standards that these battles were considered victories. Empty victories do not help people rationalize the death of so many young Burmese men and women especially when there had only been one province taken. A small society of concerned soldiers had emerged, known as "The Sentinels of the Republic", initially shown as a issues group that would provide help for veterans and active servicemen. However, this was not all completely true, the Tigers were all heavily armed soldiers trained by the government and legally allowed to organise under the 'Red-Guard' Militia laws mandated by the Politburo.

The Sentinels quickly established bases in the countryside of the Socialist Republic as they were the heaviest hit with the deaths of so many Burmese soldiers. While the government had not technically approved of the Sentinels being a force within Burma, they were entirely within their right to exist as long as they broke none of the mandated laws outlined in the constitution. Within their bases, the soldiers and veterans opened self-protection services where they would defend the rural villages that had lost large amounts of their male population. Unfortunately the Socialist Republic has not placed an emphasis on helping these rural villages and protecting them from bandit attacks or even rouge animals and because of that the Sentinels were able to exert their power. While the Sentinels were not in open defiance of the Republic, they had established three different Autonomous Self-Défense Zones.

These Autonomous Self-Défense Zones (ASDZ) all were under the Flag of the Sentinels and largely lived under the rulership of the soldiers there. Within the ASDZ the people were untaxed, they were not regulated nor mandated to do the Five Year Plans the Republic prescribed, instead they lived as Free Citizens and did not follow any governmental laws. Instead, they followed the Non-Aggression Principle which many of the villagers found themselves identifying with more than the collectivist socialist leadership.