Bangladesh Keen To Join Saudi-Pak-Turkey Defence Alliance, Says PM's Top Aide

[PK781]

Slowly but accurately and decisively, Bangladesh is starting to pivot towards its natural alliances and brotherhood and join its muslim brotherly countries in the right direction.
India can no longer rest easy given the change in Bangladesh's political and miliary doctrines. The Bangladeshi's realize this and are working that way.

 

[K2RULEZ]

Slowly but accurately and decisively, Bangladesh is starting to pivot towards its natural alliances and brotherhood and join its muslim brotherly countries in the right direction.
India can no longer rest easy given the change in Bangladesh's political and miliary doctrines. The Bangladeshi's realize this and are working that way.

As it should. You can see how the Hindutva are sweating it out.

 

[pakistanitarzan]

Pakistan should stop this. Bangladesh is a complete basket case when it comes to military matters and defense procurements. 20-30 years, and they have yet to fully commit to buying just a dozen jets for their airforce.

Bangladesh will be hangers on - and the door should be shut on them until they meet minimal standards for the size of their armed forces, budget allocation for defense procurements on a sustained basis etc...

In fact, there should be no further expansion of the pact until the founding members fix the core design issues of the pact. ie lack of spare military capability and commitments to the pact in terms of capability and funding levels, etc.

You can say same about KSA. Their fancy jets would fall out of sky in real combat but they have $ and saved our asses many times financially. Bangladesh however has nothing much to offer to Pakistan except headache to India that we can now pound them from the east as well.

 

[LeonBlack08]

@LeonBlack08

If your analysis above is correct, then I don't see BD bring much value to the Mecca alliance. It will end up like Italy in the two WWs- a drag upon its allied partners.

Regards

By that logic, many countries in NATO shouldn't be in the alliance either.

Every country has value if used appropriately. For instance Bangladesh is useless in aerial warfare given the state of our air force. But it offers value in areas such as maritime patrol/blockades etc. and can be deployed in those missions so that the stronger partners can deploy forces elsewhere. That's how modern day military alliances act. Allocation based on specialization.

 

[retaxis]

By that logic, many countries in NATO shouldn't be in the alliance either.

Every country has value if used appropriately. For instance Bangladesh is useless in aerial warfare given the state of our air force. But it offers value in areas such as maritime patrol/blockades etc. and can be deployed in those missions so that the stronger partners can deploy forces elsewhere. That's how modern day military alliances act. Allocation based on specialization.

Plus its not always about what you got right now on hand its about potential as well.

 

[lightning f57]

The Mecca pact needs to gain some teeth and bite, it needs to be taken seriously and that means forces of the 3 countries acting cohesively together. It means procuring arms and equipment of similar nature, they need a unified command control, logistics, intelligence, theater defence. There is so much to be done by the 3 founders.

Once a real fighting force is created a minimum criteria can be set to allow other brotherly muslim countries to meet the requirements and later join too. I dont personally think any countries should be added until Pak, SA, Turkiye address the points I mentioned.