Although East Africa has consistently focused on tropical jungle warfare training for the army since the seventies of the last century, it has primarily conducted these exercises within its own tropical rainforest regions, lacking large-scale combat experience.
However, East Kalimantan serves as a real battlefield, profoundly testing the tropical jungle warfare capabilities of the East African army over the past two years.
As for the final results, they barely surpassed the passing line. In order to eliminate the remaining forces of the two sultanates, East Africa's casualty figures are not particularly favorable.
This was not unexpected since Ernst knew very well that East Africa's colonization in the South Sea Region differs from other countries.
Other countries emphasize using "moral conduct" to win over people; as long as the local upper society is appeased and serves various nations willingly, intense war conflicts are unlikely to erupt.
