Colonel,
Bangladesh terrain is riverine.
Even the PT 76 light tanks during 1971 got bogged down. Therefore, tanks are more of a headache than of use.
Given the force levels of all three services of the India, it is not worth even a tinker's damn to even contemplate BD as a threat and I am not being supercilious.
The BD airforce will be knocked out of the sky and then it the sky is the limit for India.
Maruf informed you that the British were teaching them in their schools of instructions. The point to note is that the thought process of the British is NATO oriented while the subcontinental thought is still non nuclear and as they say in one day cricket, all about the slog overs.
Maruf has the tendency of day dreaming and is highly gung ho. He fails to realise that BD is pathetical and there is no grounds to even be gung ho. It is like a little child acting stupid and wanting to punch and knockout Mohamed Ali (Cassius Clay).
On his board, he had also mentioned that BD was just seconds away from making the nuclear bomb if I remember correctly! He wa highly peeved when he was told that BD was a breadbasket case and if one bomb was made (even if they were on the threshold which was highly imaginative and absurd) then it would be the end of BD since as an international pariah, all aid including food would stop and BD would have committed suicide and not even the honourable harakiri!
