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Maj. Gen. Mohammad Mahfuzur Rahman was commissioned into the Bangladesh Army in 1981 and promoted to major general in 2011. He has commanded an infantry battalion, two infantry brigades and an infantry division. He has also served as brigade major, general staff officer grade one and director of military operations at Bangladesh Army headquarters.
Bangladesh and the United States are negotiating two defense agreements that would allow Bangladesh to purchase advanced military equipment from the U.S. as part of its goal to modernize the Bangladesh military by 2030. A report in The Daily Star newspaper in Bangladesh said the General Security of Military Information Agreement (GSOMIA) and ...
Bangladesh received a loan of up to 2.65 billion yen (U.S. $25.4 million) for the project from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), which provides technical and other assistance to promote economic and social growth in developing nations, according to news reports.
Interoperability factored into the purchases, Sukadis said. Variants of the F-15 and F-16 fighters are used by partner forces including Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and the U.S. The Dassault Rafale, meanwhile, also is used by India, while Bangladesh and Malaysia are considering acquiring the aircraft.
Bangladesh is considering entering into a General Security of Military Information Agreement (GSOMIA) with the United States, according to Prothom Alo, a daily newspaper in Bangladesh. U.S. senior officials are advocating for the agreement on the basis of the success of the security partnership between the two nations to combat violence and ...
India looks to new partners, maturing defense agreements to counter Chinese aggression. Sarosh Bana. There is a method to the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC’s) vigorous outreach seeking to buy influence with India’s immediate neighbors Bangladesh, Burma, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, and by menacing India’s closest ally, Bhutan.
In his opening remarks, Gen. Charles Flynn, commander of the U.S. Army Pacific, called the symposium a venue for bilateral and multilateral engagements, relationship building and idea sharing. “Growing uncertainty in the Indo-Pacific demands and necessitates that leaders from armies — and armies — pull together and draw closer as partners ...
The first rotation was in Hawaii in October 2021. “There’s a reason we have a training center in Europe, and we don’t bring tactical forces back from Europe to the continental United States to train,” Gen. Charles Flynn, commander of U.S. Army Pacific said, according to the Army Times website. Until recently, “we just never created a ...
Specifically, PRC involvement in a U.S. $184 million runway extension in Cox’s Bazar to enable the world’s largest aircraft, including military ones, to land and refuel is renewing concerns, analysts said. “The government is funding the project to extend the existing runway. We have tasked the two Chinese companies to convert the domestic ...
When Cyclone Gulab forced nearly 50,000 people from their homes in western India in late September 2021, teams of the Indian Army and Navy, along with ships and aircraft, deployed to the coasts of Odisha and Andhra Pradesh states to bring relief supplies and perform search and rescue, reported India’s Hindustan Times newspaper.