(Old page) East Indies Crisis - do not edit: Difference between revisions

 

In the previous 5 years, there was a relative calm in the region. While fighting was still quite common and intensive in the guerilla war sense. There were however no major EILF offensive operations, this was in hindsight due to a large reorganization of the EILF military forces, in combination with a large effort to infiltrate Java the bastion of Dutch colonial control. All that had really taken place over the past 5 years were strikes throughout Java, terrorist attacks and small-scale uprisings, all of these were however crushed. All of these due to their scale lulled the Dutch forces on the island into a false sense of security.

In 1972 the Dutch forces throughout the archipelago were quite spread, with around 83,000 KNIl & Regular Dutch soldiers stationed on Java. While on Borneo 70,000 Dutch soldiers were stationed and actively engaged. On Celebs, some 90,000 men were stationed and were still fighting quite heavily on the island. With some 120,000 men bieng stationed on Sumatra and 100,000 men being stationed in the Malayan peninsula around Johor and Penang. With a total of 73,000 naval personal and 120,000 air force personal being stationed throughout the entire archipelico.