The quiet arrival of American boots on Bangladeshi soil has raised eyebrows not just in Dhaka but in New Delhi, Colombo, and even Beijing. Intelligence corridors are buzzing with speculation because on September 10, around 120 US Army and Air Force officers quietly checked into Chittagong’s Radisson Blu Hotel. The official explanation was “joint military exercises with Bangladeshi counterparts,” but the unofficial reading is that something bigger is brewing in the Bay of Bengal theatre.

The numbers alone raise suspicion: 85 rooms pre-booked at a five-star hotel, all officers flown in from Dhaka aboard a US-Bangla Airlines flight, yet curiously not a single name entered in the guest register. In a country where bureaucracy thrives on signatures and paper trails, such discretion is not acci

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