Joe Shearer
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First, what is important for Bangladesh?
It has a hostile neighbour, and an apathetic neighbour. The hostile neighbour has been responsible for the incursion of large numbers of refugees into Bangladesh, due to sustained religious and social oppression. Can this problem be resolved? Does it need an exclusively military solution? Is that military solution in any way linked to the Bangladesh Coast Guard, or even, at a broader level, to the Bangladesh Navy?
It has a hostile neighbour, and an apathetic neighbour. The hostile neighbour has been responsible for the incursion of large numbers of refugees into Bangladesh, due to sustained religious and social oppression. Can this problem be resolved? Does it need an exclusively military solution? Is that military solution in any way linked to the Bangladesh Coast Guard, or even, at a broader level, to the Bangladesh Navy?
- The problem can be resolved, but it will take effort, as well as the ability to create pressure from external sources.
- Diplomacy might help; unlikely, but should be tried out before giving up on that option;
- Military pressure might help, but would have to be pressure applied on the majority Burmese population; so, before going there, Bangladesh should line up allies. The two obvious allies to suggest themselves are the People's Republic of China, and the United States of America.
- Neither option, diplomacy nor a Burmese military defeat (unlikely to happen) seems to fit the NAVY, leave alone the Coast Guard. No need for such pipe dreams.