for instance, emergency food aid, international disaster assistance, and
migration and refugee aid. Military assistance programs, however, were suspended. Immediately
following the coup, the U.S. cut off $3.5 million in Foreign Military Financing (FMF) and
$85,000 in International Military Education and Training (IMET) funds. (In recent years,
Thailand has received approximately $1.3 million in IMET annually.7)