Operational Integrity Under Strain: External Pressures and Internal Fractures in the Bangladesh Armed Forces
Reading Time: 5 minutesOver the past two decades, the operational independence and institutional integrity of the Bangladesh Armed Forces have been tested by both internal and external pressures. While Bangladesh continues to modernise its military capabilities, particularly since the launch of Forces Goal 2030, a persistent and underreported dimension of its defence policy Continue Reading
Proposal for the Formation of the Border Defence Force (BDF) of Bangladesh
Reading Time: 12 minutesThis proposal recommends the amalgamation of the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and the Bangladesh Coast Guard (BCG) into a single unified Border Defence Force (BDF) to ensure seamless protection of Bangladesh’s land and maritime frontiers, eliminate bureaucratic overlap, maximize resource utilisation, and prepare for emerging asymmetric and non-traditional threats. Vision Continue Reading
BGB inaugurates third floating BOP in Sundarbans
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has officially inaugurated its third floating Border Outpost (BOP), named the Boising Floating BOP, strategically positioned at the confluence of the Raymangal River and Boising Channel, adjacent to the Sundarbans. The inauguration ceremony was officiated by the Honourable Home Advisor, Lieutenant General (Retd) Md Jahangir Continue Reading
Bangladesh Thwarts Surge in Indian Push-In Attempts Amid Border Tensions
Reading Time: 3 minutesBorder Under Siege: The Midnight Pushback that Unravelled a Crisis In the dead of night on 16 May 2025, the sleepy villages of Bijoynagar in Brahmanbaria district awoke to an alarm that has become all too familiar: India’s Border Security Force (BSF) had allegedly amassed hundreds of people near the Continue Reading
Bangladesh Reinforces Borders Amid Alleged Cross-Border Push-in by Indian Forces
Reading Time: 4 minutesDhaka, Bangladesh — A Growing Border Crisis Tensions are mounting along the Bangladesh-India frontier as allegations emerge of repeated cross-border push-in by India’s Border Security Force (BSF). According to official sources in Dhaka, Indian and Myanmar nationals—most of them Muslim—are being forcibly moved into Bangladeshi territory, raising urgent humanitarian, legal, Continue Reading