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Part of the ASEAN club unwritten rule is to retain just enough fang to deter the neighbour in case they went rabid after regime change so our military scales according to next door threat.
This means no massive force build up just gradually changing from counterinsurgency force to conventional with small purchases and developing combat doctrine from scratch, the army just started to use MBTs in 2003.
Then Poland deindustralised and parts have been cut off for a decade with the tanks gradually becoming hangar queen.
The army is already small, most budget is in the navy due to volume of shipping that needs protection.