tsinga
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You really need to come out of this confrontational attitude.The official defence spending is only for salaries, operations, maintenance and purchase of arms that BD makes itself. We need to add the roughly 500 million dollars a year on average that the BD government spends on arms imports. When this is taken into account, then total defence expenditure comes to around 1.6-1.7% of GDP.
I would like defence spending to rise to around 2% of GDP but I am not totally confident that this will happen. BD military realistically assesses that it would be very difficult to adequately defend against India unless defence spending is raised to 3-4% of GDP. The current defence expenditure is adequate to catch up and eventually become stronger than Myanmar over the medium-long term, as BD military will always be better led and trained than backward Myanmar.
Myanmar, BD and India have recently solved their disputes. Now none of the countries have any claim on either land or sea or EEZ of each other.
There is practically zero reason why anyone would go to war. Defense is necessary, yes and must be maintained, but chances of war between any of these 3 has died down dramatically since the Border accords were signed. Ergo, spending more than 2% on defense when our economies are poor would be foolhardy. Even Myanmar is relaxing and coming out economically by treating with India and China on large scale projects.