917 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ চতুর্দশ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ ৩৮৬। সামরিক সরবরাহের অসুবিধায় পাক হিন্দুস্তান ষ্টান্ডার্ড ২৮ নভেম্বর, ১৯৭১ বাহিনী ক্ষতির সম্মুখীন HINDUSTAN STANDARD, NOVEMBER 18, 1971 LOGISTIC DEFECIENCIES HURTING PAK TROOPS LT. General L. P. Sen, D. S. O. Our Military Correspondent In every campaign, the administrative arrangements must be equal to meeting the strain imposed by the tactical plan. If care is not taken to ensure this the commander in the field will find himself without an even chance of success and may even face disaster. Such it will be recalled, was the case with Germany's crack Afrika Korps in the western desert in World War II. Not even its brilliant commander Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, could save it. Has the Pakistani Army in Bangladesh ensured that its administrative arrangements are capable of withstanding for a prolonged period? The resistance being put up by the Mukti Bahini. There is a feeling in many quarters that the logistic support of the Pakistani Army is not as healthy as it should be and that in the near future the situation may become very serious for them. This view is based on the fact that the Pakistan military junta when it decided to cow down the people of Bangladesh did not think in terms of a long-drawn-out campaign. It was to be a blitzkrieg lasting only for a short while. In view of this, the three divisions that were moved from West Pakistan to Bangladesh by air and sea arrived with their logistics based not on a war-but a peacetime footing. The stout resistance put up by the Mukti Bahini over the last eight months has very definitely forced the Pakistani troops to dig deep into their limited stocks. As the fight with the Mukti Bahini continues over a prolonged period replenishment of these stocks would be a necessity. This will involve a long lift from West Pakistan but this should present no problem provided there is no interferences. But it is in this field that the Mukti Bahini guerillas have embarrassed the Pakistan Army to no small degree. By the large-scale destruction and dislocation of road and railway bridges, culverts and minor bridges the guerillas have presented the Pakistani forces with a serious headache. It has had far more than a nuisance value as local labor to assist in repairing the damage is scarce. But it is not the destruction of the road and rail bridges that has done the greatest damage. Attacks on ships in harbors and other inland watercraft in places such as Chittagong, Chalna, the Mongla area and Chandpur have placed a severe strain on the Pakistanis. Grain and munitions ships and a tanker have been sunk. Pakistan's exposed army in Bangladesh can in afford these loss of food stuff by local purchase is no longer possible.
