Why does Bangladesh maintain a military? Just who is it's enemy?

[Bilal9]

you did rob them of everything you could cart away, this I know for a fact. however I am not saying that they did not deserve it, they sure did!

Whether we deserved it or not is a question of a person's viewpoint.

However it is pretty certain that,

1. Indian govt. got liberated in 1947 and we did some 24 years later.
2. Goras made and left everything for them, their assets, industry, skills all continued in 1947 with no damage. We started FROM ZERO (SCRATCH). And with almost no intelligentsia left.
3. Look where we have come health and social-indicator wise, export-oriented economy-wise and where Indians are stuck.

Sanghis will never mention this to ignorant Indians. They can't even fix their open-defecation/hygiene problems!

 

[VikingRaider]

Fuking unicef statistic! Never try to learn! I repeatedly asked such people to visit even rural areas of Bangladesh and see with their own eyes, they will learn how clean Muslims are. But other than doing so the idiots rely on unicef statistics! Theoretical people with no practical knowledge and no commonsense.

Also they have no grey matter! Because if they had grey matter, they wouldn't tag us as gutka chewer! What a pathetic idiot! Perhaps learned about gutka from any online statistic.

 

[Silverblaze]

They can eye it all they want. But they won't get it. People of Bangladesh would rather die than have Hindus as their masters...they will fight to the last man.

No to be rude to bangladeshi citizens but what resistance bangladesh can offer?

When ur army chief requests indian president to let him keep his job, it does not bode well.

Im just a humble student of strategy, in my opinion China sees you as the only 'potential' pro china port near the malaccas. All others are either dubious or pro american or pro indian. Chinese weapons are available. Bangladesh can have reasonable military assets at any time, but it chooses not too.

If India with US blessings does something to get chittagong port if the conflict with china in north east intensifies, bangladesh cannot do much.

Just like crimea, if india revives shanti bahini or banga sena in chittagong hills, and intervenes just like russia did in crimea or might ask for a military base or maintain joint control over it, Bangladesh would comply considering india will have complete backing of US and a overblown threat of China.

I do not mean to demean bangladeshi citizens but this how ones sees the scenario.

 

[Michael Corleone]

Cuz Sardar Patel was furious when Partition awarded Chittagong Hill Tracts to East Pakistan ...till this day..I also donot understand that decision....The area has a thriving Theravada Buddhist community...monks and all

Well the partition gave West Bengal, orrissa, Assam, Tripura to India, to this day I don’t understand why India got em

He has habit to open stupid threads but you just beat him in stupidity as you want to fight India with tiny gun as you even knows well you are land locked from three side.

India has been in dick measuring contest with its neighbors for decades, always had their *** handed back to them. Except that one time they took credit for 71

Lolzz. Your leaders were not in position to decide anything in 1971. They all were on mercy of Indira Gandhi. Most of your population was in favour of India and were into no position to fight back against India.
Russians was in fully favour of Indira Gandhi whatever decision she made on Bangladesh. Lucky you that she had no ill intentions apart from your liberation .

Oh please, y’all had to leave after liberation when US issued sharp warnings and following mujibs order for you to leave. If y’all had decided to stay then the shit would start all over again and Pakistan would have easily reignited conflict, possibly trying to take Kashmir

No. Sultanate of Islamic Republic of Pakistan will be established

Wot mate?

 

[Bilal9]

No to be rude to bangladeshi citizens but what resistance bangladesh can offer?

When ur army chief requests indian president to let him keep his job, it does not bode well.

Im just a humble student of strategy, in my opinion China sees you as the only 'potential' pro china port near the malaccas. All others are either dubious or pro american or pro indian. Chinese weapons are available. Bangladesh can have reasonable military assets at any time, but it chooses not too.

If India with US blessings does something to get chittagong port if the conflict with china in north east intensifies, bangladesh cannot do much.

Just like crimea, if india revives shanti bahini or banga sena in chittagong hills, and intervenes just like russia did in crimea or might ask for a military base or maintain joint control over it, Bangladesh would comply considering india will have complete backing of US and a overblown threat of China.

Good points.

The Army chief is not a favored person with the PM - there are many questionable reports about this person's background. The fact that the Chief asked Indian President to intervene is humiliating and if Indians know better - they will not intervene in our internal affairs.

I for one wish that this incompetent Army Chief was kicked out, but things always take their course. We have a talent paucity in our military upper ranks, with nepotism etc. taking the place of natural selection....

I will give one thing to the PM, she knows how to 'handle' both China and India. If Indians get transshipment to the ports with some arrangements, they will not risk an all out skirmish to take territory. For now this is our national strategy until we become more armed and equipped. Indians are kanjoos as anything and still have tons of transshipment fees in the arrears.

Also - we have over Seven/Eight Billion dollars of yearly trade with Indians (officially 7 Billion, unofficially again as much, so total around 15 Billion), and this is mostly in their favor. That is something Indians may not risk as well.

I am proud of our diplomats. We will keep improving business relationship with China to improve the economy. Without a strong economy, arms development and equipping will become challenging. While we keep the Indians placated and at bay so they don't try anything adventurous.

 

[Michael Corleone]

The case for a strong military is there for bangladesh. A strong air force is more important than the rest especially in their geo strategic environment. The threats bangladesh faces are the same it faced thousands of years ago. Its ports are vulnerable.
The hindu fascists in india could capture chittagong as their is no sea port for their north east. As assam and other states grow they will be more dependent on myanmar or china. Hindus would eye chittagong then.

True with army becoming increasingly obsolete in modern warfare, a mobile navy and a strong airforce is essential to win the modern war

Bangladesh as a nation was born during a time of military genocide on its people. And this was not the first time people of region suffered a genocide in the hands of a superior military power

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943

Its probably part of Bangla pysche the lack of a military can invite the same again regardless of no current threats.

Reasonable answer

 

[VikingRaider]

True with army becoming increasingly obsolete in modern warfare, a mobile navy and a strong airforce is essential to win the modern war

What are you saying bro. How can you fight without army? Where you can land your plane if you lost control of land!!!

 

[Michael Corleone]

Your defeat is pretty much written on walls,when you have 45000 Troops,4156 km Border area to defend, against huge number of xyz Terror bahnis at home and fully equipped almost 200000 enemy troops(almost 4 enemy corps vs 1 yours).With sheer amount of arms and man power at Bharati disposal,at max they should have reached Dhaka in 72 hours.

Funny because 1 Pakistani is supposed to equal to 13 Hindu or bengalis...
And also funny because all the sabotage didn’t help the armored brigade to move in as fast as possible. If anything we helped your army from total anhilation by blowing up bridges and other infrastructure

What are you saying bro. How can you fight without army? Where you can land your plane if you lost control of land!!!

You’ll see army size is being reduced in all modern military to a defensive level, army can no longer be vital for offensive purpose because its usually associated with stalemates and huge casualty. A modern war is a quick decisive one, hence you see more of air strikes and spec ops then actual full scale invasion because that has become obsolete

But no country is a threat to Bangladesh.

- PRTP GWD

No country is a threat to gangadesh except gangadesh itself

What are you , idiot??
A tiny country with lots of thankless people.
Have some shame you brainwashed zombie before you wrote this crap about a country who liberated you.
What you achieved in 8 months fightiNg, you turd???
Indian Army achieved in 13 days only what you thankless zombies were not able to achieve even till today.
You are showing your pride like you are from " Alien planet".
You are just a Bangladeshi idiot.
Aukat mai reho.

Funny how impoverished India achieves something in 13 days that supapowa India fails to replicate since

When ur army chief requests indian president to let him keep his job, it does not bode well.

When did this happen?

Why is this vegan opening stupid threads is beyond me

 

[The Ronin]

This old crap again?! Seriously you had to open a thread for this dumb question? You could have just goggled yourself why does a country need military or what's the role of a country's military during peace time.

If you don't even know this simple answer why bother coming in defense forum? That's like asking why do you need doors and boundary wall in you house or keep a gun when you live in a area full of criminals. Next time you will probably ask why Canada/New Zealand needs a military. But seeing the usual shit in this thread i want to ask you the most important question someone should've asked you before. WHY DO YOU NEED A BRAIN?!

@The Eagle @waz @WebMaster @Arsalan @Slav Defence another unnecessary thread for usual troll fest and mud throwing. Kindly close it.

 

[Silverblaze]

Funny because 1 Pakistani is supposed to equal to 13 Hindu or bengalis...
And also funny because all the sabotage didn’t help the armored brigade to move in as fast as possible. If anything we helped your army from total anhilation by blowing up bridges and other infrastructure


You’ll see army size is being reduced in all modern military to a defensive level, army can no longer be vital for offensive purpose because its usually associated with stalemates and huge casualty. A modern war is a quick decisive one, hence you see more of air strikes and spec ops then actual full scale invasion because that has become obsolete


No country is a threat to gangadesh except gangadesh itself


Funny how impoverished India achieves something in 13 days that supapowa India fails to replicate since


When did this happen?

Why is this vegan opening stupid threads is beyond me

It was sometime ago but shows how deeply india is involved and is getting deeper.

https://en.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/Pranab-claims-he-intervened-in-Hasina-Khaleda

 

[zhxy]

Bangladesh's policy is to strike a balance between India and China. Bangladesh wants India to support them economically and defense, but does not want to be an Indian puppet. So Bangladesh needs capital from China to ease the influence of India, and to appease neighbor, Bangladesh will buy more weapons from China and then resell and transfer information to India. (helping India deal with China). A stone kills 2 birds

 

[Robbie]

Why does Bangladesh maintain a military? Just who is it's enemy?

And why does it do so much of arms purchase? I have read that they even have submarines? Why do they need all this? Is all that meant to fight China someday?

- PRTP GWD

Actually, I don't think BD spends that much on the military because its threat perception is very low.

Bangladesh does not expect to go to war with India, they invest enough in the military to maintain deterrence levels against Myanmar. Compare BD to Pakistan who nearly has the same population, Pakistan spends far too much at the cost of its development and growth needs. That is one of the reasons Bangladesh has surpassed Pakistan, it invests in a more balanced way,.

 

[Michael Corleone]

It was sometime ago but shows how deeply india is involved and is getting deeper.

https://en.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/Pranab-claims-he-intervened-in-Hasina-Khaleda

Well gen moeen came for the greater good of the country only to fall into the greed of power and he’s paid for it, he suffered from cancer and now is disrespected among common folks and reduced to live a quiet life in US. Hasina will pay for her sins too if she was involved in clean slating during BDR mutiny.

 

[UKBengali]

Actually, I don't think BD spends that much on the military because its threat perception is very low.

Bangladesh does not expect to go to war with India, they invest enough in the military to maintain deterrence levels against Myanmar. Compare BD to Pakistan who nearly has the same population, Pakistan spends far too much at the cost of its development and growth needs. That is one of the reasons Bangladesh has surpassed Pakistan, it invests in a more balanced way,.

What you say is somewhat true but even then it still spends 1.5% of GDP on defence when arms imports are taken into account.

While it is true that only a military clash with Myanmar is the only realistic scenario in the short-medium term, it is building a military over the medium-long term that would be a credible deterrent to India as you never know how things may turn out.

 

[Avicenna]

This old crap again?! Seriously you had to open a thread for this dumb question? You could have just goggled yourself why does a country need military or what's the role of a country's military during peace time.

If you don't even know this simple answer why bother coming in defense forum? That's like asking why do you need doors and boundary wall in you house or keep a gun when you live in a area full of criminals. Next time you will probably ask why Canada/New Zealand needs a military. But seeing the usual shit in this thread i want to ask you the most important question someone should've asked you before. WHY DO YOU NEED A BRAIN?!

@The Eagle @waz @WebMaster @Arsalan @Slav Defence another unnecessary thread for usual troll fest and mud throwing. Kindly close it.

This thread is hilarious.

Thanks @abcxyz0000 for opening another one of your CLASSIC weird threads.

Carry on gentleman....