OK Let me do my bit...............refined it some more.
@Major 13625
All this is fine - although we are on BN thread. But lemme add. We can achieve nothing positive in national security, commercial gains or preserve/practice our culture/ faith as long as our rulers take direction from a source the nation perceives as the top threat to its existence.
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The growth of Bangladesh's economic and diplomatic capabilities brings to the world increasing honor, prestige, influence. The biggest surprise in this role is military capability. Current state efforts is visible in increasing this capability.
The policy behind this capability has been shown with the purchase of the two-strong Bangladesh submarine fleet. Submarine purchase was necessary to present the name of Bangladesh as an up and coming military entity.
Although this presentation and nomination did have a black spot which included the military MOU with Indian administration.
Although the local military intelligentsia, planners and strategists want to keep this increase in military capability mobilized, at the same time they want the influence of India in local military affairs increasingly lessened.
A major strategy to slowly disable Indian influence in regional affairs will be to increase influence of Bangladesh in local diplomatic events and fora, which we have neglected thus far.
This influence is already visible in the IORA Summit in Jakarta, the IPU summit in Dhaka, the act of recognizing Kosovo by Bangladesh and the recent raising of diplomatic and trade/commercial activity in Asia-Africa-South America to a different level.
The time has now come to 'Fit' military diplomacy within the framework of trade and other types of diplomacy in these nations by Bangladesh.
Bangladesh has gained quite a bit of experience by its soldiers participating in overseas peacekeeping missions, however these operation will contribute little to the capacity of Bangladesh's military influence and diplomacy overseas.
The goal of Bangladesh military peacekeepers missions does not revolve around increasing the nation's military diplomacy. The UN keeps an eye on such efforts and will resist them. So Bangladesh needs other options outside UN missions to increase military diplomacy.
Cooperation in the field of training foreign armies, and especially in security – is a key to increasing friendly relationships with friendly nations.
When Bangladesh is looking for friends in the world it can use already developed friendly relations with many nations in Africa to extend a friendly hand of cooperation. At the same time there are many countries are leaving Africa with 'oppressor' stamped on their records.
When one enters a friend's House they come in through the gate; because friends opens doors for friends. Thieves enter someone's home through the back door or tunnel under. Thieves need tunneling/covert equipment and techniques. Bangladesh has no need for such equipment.
Bangladesh only needs the intent of establishing profound friendships in foreign nations.
Friends get help and goods from friends. But thieves only take things without permission from people. Friends of Bangladesh will get cooperation and assistance from Bangladesh - that's why they will want to be friends of Bangladesh.
Bangladesh has taken military training to such a level, which is an example to the world. The world has observed the professionalism of the military of Bangladesh at various times all around the world. And for this reason, many countries in the world come to Bangladesh for training their military officers.
This is the same image the Bangladesh armed forces preserved on its global peace missions. However, the next act will be not to stay stuck in the middle of the peacekeepers mission experience and to deliver the message of friendship to the rest of the world by capitalizing on the professionalism and experience gained from them.
And in this case the best support will be to impart training in the field of peacekeeping to friendly nations. Which will in turn increase our military diplomacy around the world.
Bangladesh armed forces currently imparts military training to military personnel from friendly countries within Bangladesh. But it will not be prudent and farsighted in the future to limit such training on the ground within Bangladesh.
Bangladesh's security is simply not set within the 1 million 44 thousand square kilometers the British set in 1947. When ten million Bangladeshis are spread almost everywhere in the world, the armed forces should not sit at home and limit their activity there.
Thousands of Bangladesh troops now spread around in different parts of the world- especially in Africa. So now the time has come to think about the definition of security. Bangladesh needs to think about Bangladeshi commercial, military and diplomatic interests worldwide and how to protect these interests, and most importantly - have the contextual
capability to do so. Otherwise empty words of diplomacy will have no value to anyone.
After the start of the war in Yemen, Bangladesh had to seek help from India (which most Bangladeshis consider an enemy state) to repatriate its citizens, which did not improve the image of Bangladesh, and which indebted Bangladesh diplomatically and thus weakened the image of the country. So building political and military capabilities worldwide of Bangladesh's national capacity building related to this is necessary. And talking about training and experience - Bangladesh's policy of coordinating and exchange of experience through training with friends in different climates and scenarios – can be the key to increasing military capability itself.
We need to find answers to important questions about Bangladesh's external military capabilities. For example, can Bangladesh manage the training activities outside Bangladesh? I must say that this is affirmative. But at the same time I will have to say that this ability is not sufficient. Organizing these activities need to be elevated to another level upward. For example, some units for training activities can be posted outside of Bangladesh. This unit composed of all forces can be termed "Overseas training command" .
Army Units
There should be a complete unit of the army, which will be deployed outside the country altogether. And can be deployed for a while. Its main unit and a battalion along with several other units should be at least the level of one brigade. One of the main features of this unit will be its mobility. All features will need to be highly mobile. However, depending on the area of deployment its composition can be changed. Here's an idea about the number of units has been trying.
This unit may be in-
1. An infantry battalion
2. Mechanized unit (BTR-80 APC -20 nos and Otokar Cobra APC -12 nos)
3. Artillery unit (WS-22 rocket launchers-4, Nora b-52 howitzer-6 and SLC-2 radar-1)
4. Air defence unit (one FM-90 unit)
5. Transport unit (20 trucks, 20 technical. Should include ATGM)
6. Engineering unit (can have minor clearance and river crossing equipment)
7. Signals unit (w/satellite communication)
8. Medical unit
9. Maintenance unit
10. Paracommando detachment
Naval Units
Its main purpose is to transport army and air units, and ensure security at locations outside Bangladesh. At the same time taking part in the training with the Navy and Coastguards of friendly countries. There has been mention of the seven ships. However, the unit may be small or large than this. Some ships which are not in Bangladesh fleet, some examples have been given.
This unit may have-
1. A Frigate (if you have a helicopter that is best; otherwise other units helicopters can be used)
2. An LPC (invincible-class or Durjoy class)
3. An OPV (coast guard ship will be a more valuable here, white)
4. A troop ship (a ship capacity of 1,000 troops), which can be purchased and changed. There must be at least three weeks of rooming and boarding 1,000-troops. Helipad and satellite communication will be required. For example, former Bangladesh Navy ship BNS Shahid Salahuddin's name can be mentioned, although we'll need something more updated than that ship).
5. A container ship (160 to 180 meters size, which is capable of entering Chittagong Port and most of the African port of entry. It will be used to transport aircraft and other large items. Can be bought commercially and modified it must change in such a way that the planes can be carried on deck. Approximately needs to carry 14-15 planes and also space for a helipad. In this case, for example, the British Royal Navy can be quoted which used Atlantic Conveyor and Atlantic Causeway during the Falklands war which were 2012 meters long and 15,000 tons carrying 24 to 28 airplanes to Falkland Islands)
6. A need to buy RO-RO commercial ferry and changed to carry Military vehicle and equipment. This size should be like 160 to 180 metres. For example, the Royal Navy's ' point class "can be mentioned. Sized at 193 meters and 23,000 tons this ships carry 130 armored vehicles and 60 trucks.
7. A supply ship (to meet fuel supplies which can meet the deficit). However, there is no need to ensure supply of the whole way. Bangladeshi ships are welcome at most any port.
8. Special forces SWADS detachment (with hi-speed boat. )
Air UNITS
There are all kinds of aircraft in the air unit. Training is necessary in all cases; So in the case of the plane and it should be. Here are a number of ways. Remember that the number will be called, but transport is necessary.
This unit may be in-
1. A fighter unit (F-7BG -4, and f-rabraj 4)
2. A transport unit (Let-410-a. Will it fly in destination, although others will ship. )
3. Helicopter unit (emai-171-4 and 109-agus-2)
4. Drone units (observation mission should be a drone for the course unit)
5. Radar unit (an air search radar ground sits in for should be in command)
6. Meinten unit
7. Ajerbeis unit (this unit has deployed multiple countries in Africa, Bangladesh. This may be another unit of this command. )
For example, several countries can speak, with whom bonridhupim training and experience exchange; Such as Sri Lanka, Maldives, Tanzania, Kenya, Somalia, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, etc. The length of such training mission as a distance can be determined. "This mission via the command" oversiz training Bangladesh's military capabilities will improve, and porfethonel such as worldwide number of friends of Bangladesh. At the same time the development of the image of Bangladesh and will multiply the effect around the world. Strong Bangladesh just will not stay in a pen and paper, in real life. And then an essential military capabilities.
27 April 2017
A rough translation by iTranslate, which google translate did a worse job at translating.
