It is obvious that the 7th Fleet is not going to be based for the Bay of Bengal.
If one has read Dick Cheney’s Defence Policy Guidelines, which seems to be the Bible for what is happening around the world ever since Iraq, one would realise that the US aims to base its military assets in areas around the world for quick reaction. The first Iraq War has indicate the monumental issues of mobilisation resulting in the loss of strategic surprise and hence requiring a greater force to enforce the US interests.
Therefore, it all probability it would be a Task Force that maybe positioned.
If one understood Bangladeshi politics, one would understand the nuances, subtle that they are. But it is understandable if some haven't and yet comment with breathless and excited sarcasm and try to appear knowledgeable and consider what they read of some news reports or that of think tanks as something totally inferior in intellect to theirs! Yet, surprisingly the rebuttal or sarcasm has no substance given to back it up! Oracles, I presume!
At one time, China showed interest to 'develop' BD ports.
One surely knows the Chinese strategy of "String of Pearls".
Indian Ocean is a no go and the US is saying so with its deployments!
What on earth is the US doing in Singapore, if not to dominate a chokepoint to the Indian Ocean?
There is good reasons in India to be breathless and excited if one has followed the geopolitic and geostrategy of this region.
One wonders why one feels that "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary".
If indeed it were so, then the world would have ended long ago!
But then those who are ardent champions that China (which I find is your refrain on many threads) is only undertaking a Peaceful Rise (and with that refrain would like to disarm the others and lull them into complacency with such bogus pious platitudes) are forgetting that China's actions do not seem to be what is being tomtoms as what is China doing!
“You can fool some people sometimes, but you can't fool all the people all the time.” Bob Marley';s
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