[🇧🇩] Chicken Neck/Siliguri Corridor

[Bilal9]

We don’t invest in loss making dogshit infrastructure lol.

It's OK buddy, no one is asking you to. It's clear you are trolling.

I will temporarily lock this thread as we've made our points.

 

[Saif]

The so called Chicken Neck is a myth which is widely promoted by online BD bloggers with no military expertise or undereducated junior BD military officers. This so called Chicken neck has no military significance at the strategic, tactical and operational level in the 21st century military doctrine . It is a full waste of time to even discuss this with civilians. It could be an issue probably some five hundred years ago but not in modern time.

Unfortunately the Indians don't share your views on the Chicken Neck issue. India considers the Chicken Neck as its only strategic disadvantage which could lead to its disintegration under Chinese pressure. That's why the Indians want to use Bangladesh as an alternative route to Chicken's Neck. The opposition political parties in Bangladesh have also expressed their concerns about granting rail transit to India. The Chicken's Neck has military significance at the strategic, tactical, and operational level. That's why the Indian army has stationed its XXXIII Corps at Siliguri of West Bengal. The XXXIII Corps comprises of three Mountain Divisions namely 17 Mountain Division, 20 Mountain Division, and 27 Mountain Division.

New rail lines for Northeast via Bangladesh to bypass 'Chicken's Neck' | Kolkata News - Times of India

India plans to develop an alternative railway network through Bangladesh, leveraging the India-Bangladesh Trade Agreement of 1980. The initiative aims

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

After 55 years, India will inaugurate a new railway line with Bangladesh to save its ‘Chicken’s Neck’ from China | Business Insider India

India is saving its ‘Chicken’s Neck’ from China as it inaugurates a new railway line with Bangladesh after 55 years.

www.businessinsider.in

Bangladesh must not give India train transit

During Sheikh Hasinas recent Delhi visit, a significant development took place that might throw Bangladeshs

www.themirrorasia.net

 

[Mustafa.Iq]

If a war breaks out between China and India. The Siliguri Corridor is a huge weakness.

China can cut off Eastern India from the rest of India.

 

[Saif]

If a war breaks out between China and India. The Siliguri Corridor is a huge weakness.

China can cut off Eastern India from the rest of India.

You are quite right in your observation, brother

 

[Vikings]

If a war breaks out between China and India. The Siliguri Corridor is a huge weakness.

China can cut off Eastern India from the rest of India.

Does China have direct access to the corridor?

 

[Bilal9]

Does China have direct access to the corridor?

They have border access to Sikkim, which (once breached) is less than 170 KM from the entire Siliguri Corridor.

It's only a question of time before they decide to breach it, a low-hanging fruit strategically (so to speak)..

Here are the images showing the distances involved in KM.

Map with Sikkim not shown as a state, it is in between Bhutan and Nepal and bordering China (Tibet) in the North.

 

[Saif]

Does China have direct access to the corridor?

The Chinese army will make a huge thrust into tiny Sikkim to access Siliguri Corridor to separate North-East from the rest of India. Siliguri Corridor is the only strategic vulnerability of India which could bring about its disintegration. Hope that answers your question.

 

[Saif]

Let's see what Pinaki Bhattacharya has to say about Siliguri Corridor.