Uh no, there were several on ground actions by the US and UK in the Kuwait theatre (armour cavalry, engg corps and much else). You can ask
@jhungary
Minor partners like BD basically did protection of the logistics chain, they were never in any spearhead action in any theatre. Egyptians I would give more props to than BD in the hierarchy of the coalition actions.
Don't let the BAL propaganda get to your head in this too.
Bangladesh and the Gulf War: Response of a Small State
Ishtiaq Hossain
Can find it on JSTOR.
US had done all of its operation with aircraft carriers and destroyers... bombing key enemy targets... UKs armor played a role in stopping Iraqi armor... but infantry level fights were done by Egyptians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, saudis etc.
last year Kuwait honored Bangladeshi and other countries servicemen who fought for the country some of whom even have given their life for it. Kuwait itself acknowledges Bangladeshs role in their countries war... how do you think we got so many Iraqi tanks for ourselves?
After the war the demining operations was given to Bangladesh, US, Pakistan and U.K.
All the four country declared Kuwait mine free but when reports of mines going of on UK US and pakistans area of jurisdiction... no one was willing to go in again... Bangladesh then took the contract and officially declared Kuwait mine free in 2014.
Oh and my dad was in Kuwait during the war... he got involved with the Bangladeshi and egeyotian troops fighting Iraqi troops... they made him and other civilians lie on the ground, and strapped mines on Iraqi armor...
A stupid egeyptian bit my dads knee and tore off good amount of flesh from the shock of the battlefield... my dad had to beat him with a rod to let him go.
Speaking of Awami league propaganda... they never talk about kuwaits war ever... they were against sending in troops being in the opposition at the time... what I say is well documented and acknowledged by Kuwait, US and everyone who took part in coalition... there is a reason US offered us weapons and military aid if we join them in iraqs invasion of 2003.
There was one Bengali commanders among saudian, UK, US French and Kuwaiti commanders who planned out the operations throughout the war...
Kuwaits war was mainly about closing off Iraqi routes for the Iraqis to escape out of Kuwait and then carpet bombing them... those who decided to not go with the main convoy and do guerrila fights all over Kuwait was neutralized with ground troops.
BS.
In 90s over 70,000 Pak soldiers were in KSA.. Entire PA Brigades like 12 Independent Armoured Brigade (Tabuk) etc was raised in KSA.
https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/arab...-for-pakistan-army.487312/page-3#post-9353482
However Bangladeshi and even Pak peacekeepers under UN Mandat were involved in de-mining operation after the war in kuwait.
Gulf still has dozen of thousands of PA soldiers,instructors even today.
All Gulf mil were raised by Pakistan.Heck even emirate airlines was raised by PIA (ironic).
http://cpakgulf.org/documents/Pak-Gulf-Security-Ties-final.pdf
http://www.ipripak.org/pakistans-relations-with-gulf-states/
I'm talking about ground battles within Kuwait.
About demining... well US and U.K. Was also involved... later bengalis had to re run their areas after mines started going off again.
Pakistani instructors serve in Saudi and Kuwait too... Kuwait mostly on Air Force though, the army instructors are mostly bengalis and US, UK mix... while the navy mix includes Pakistan... there are just 12 instructors in Air Force from bd.
PIA once the best airlines in the world.... I was surprised and shocked to learn about the fact... #ironic... Pakistan used to be compared to LA of the east.... again #ironic... (it's offensive to blame the British for the misery of people of the sub continent)
Well, that should never have happened. I think that the purpose was to protect Saudi Arabia and then it got changed to "liberating" Kuwait lol.
I guess the only excuse was that BD was so poor then it needed the money.
BD should have no part in any foreign wars under any circumstances.
Erm, no it was ershad... I wouldn't blame him if he wanted a sweet spot for himself...
bd didn't pledge to protect Saudi like Pakistan back then... Pakistan stationed their troops in Saudi back then...
bd pledges protection to Makkah and medina if you didn't know.... (now...)
Sorry to say but the UN missions we send our troops to are all foreign wars and conflicts that we send our troops to interfere and calm.
As much it is about money it is also about experience... so you're prepared when something real happens.
It's free money so who's complaining.
