Im saying the time would have been much much reduced if there was. Which is exactly what happened with BD.
If France had a military dictatorship, it would have continued on much past 12 years too.
Way better armed and trained than any rag tag resistance force BD would have had for a few months before they ran out of ammo and all got lined up and shot.
When you exclusively rely on an occupier for your weapons and ammo, you simply will not win if you have nothing else going for you (like say control of munition factories, strategic depth, foreign diaspora money, foreign supply chains).
Nothing would have got through to help (which you would severely need past a few months)...and it would have just ended in a low level insurgency over time....mid level at best. Armies only really get put under pressure by high level insurgency, BD resistance simply could not put up this level for any decent amount of time....and where you gonna put it? There wasn't even any valuable things to hold, the whole place is pretty tiny and has not even an ammunition factory.
So? They had the people with the guns, the organisation and training all in higher levels than any rag tag resistance you could concoct in an insulated environment.
Over time they could replenish this way better than you ever could too. It would have been a quite unfair fight in the long term....and it ends with you lot being crushed. Sure you might keep the embers flaring here and there, but without anyone giving you any buffer, sanctuary, money and arms from outside....you are done. You are effectively thousands of fish squeezed into a barrel with a couple piranha here and there, it is a very non-ideal situation to try surmount any resistance against an occupier willing to do whatever necessary to achieve objectives. Lots of fishies die from saturated shotgun blast, and eventually over time they figure out the piranha have to go for them to even live. Sorry you are not some special superhuman viking-gurkha hybrid fanatic people. Can continue a low level insurgency past the original failed struggle for sure....but I judge Pakistan to deal with that long term. They acquired nuclear weapons now didnt they? The level of military saturation in their society/GDP is high, this would only help them to deal with anything you continue long term in this hypothetical scenario.
Not if they don't have the basic means and environment to continue something no matter how it may or may not be perceived by what in hindsight is thought to be the "majority".
Ever wonder why we only really know about the guerillas that eventually "won"? Want me to list all the times such failed...often terribly? Why no one really knows about them?...especially how they outnumber the wins by a huge magnitude.
We all like a good story to feel better about ourselves....where the underdog surmounts all odds and beats Goliath. It has an effect on historicity more than you can imagine. Unfortunately in real life, it is nowhere near 100% clear cut trend.
You say a "few stragglers"....but many other BD members here dispute that to this day.....that they were sizeable and even the majority. Who to believe in reality? We got some genuine neutral source regarding this? Oh right, we dont. History written by the victors etc etc.
Not talking about the details of why theres a conflict there. Just providing you a living example of what sustained logistics and superior resources do over much time.
Same case with Northern Ireland. Did the IRA get their way even with much popular support and a strong backer right next door...and a huge diaspora in a superpower that funded them?
Logistics + resources are 99% of a conflict (whatever length, whatever intensity).
BD by itself simply did not have it in 1971 to beat W. Pakistan army completely alone over any period of time....short or long.
It not counting to you, doesn't matter at all to us or Pakistan...and beyond those two no one really knows Bangladesh anyway much less its formation story.
Anyone truly neutral with half a brain that does seek out the facts of that formation will plainly realise it came to fruition because of India. You don't cook a biryani with no rice and call it a biryani still
Again no one cares, especially about one sole opinion claiming to represent a whole country (esp given the myriad of other opinions on this very subforum from other BD people...which you frequently cry are not real BD people).
No one cares even if it were true...thats how insignificant you are and always will be.
Don't know. Maybe put a poll out there to ask this forum about it (there are some good members with extensive knowledge of the matter) if you have the izzat for it. Of course you dont and wont. You obviously were born with 0, which again explains why 1971 even happened in the first place after 1947. That is the fate of your people....lackeys, foot stools and target practice.
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