For example, Gwadar Port in Pakistan in the previous life, Kyaukpyu Port in Myanmar, the Funan Canal in Cambodia, and so on, were all meant to ensure energy security, national defense and strategic security, smooth trade, and more.
This was actually a choice born of helplessness. After all, if Singapore had been in East African hands, East Africa obviously would not have settled for Phuket Island as the next best thing.
This time, General Kolets personally led the Fourth Fleet under the East African Indian Ocean Fleet to Phuket Island, which showed just how much importance East Africa attached to Phuket Island.
The Fourth Fleet was a main force squadron under the East African Indian Ocean Fleet. It was immensely powerful, equipped with four battleships, and its home port was Lamu Port. Lamu was a northern military port on the East Coast that East Africa had actively developed since the last century.
However, with East Africa's plans for the Phuket Island naval base, the Fourth Fleet's home port would be moved to Phuket Port on Phuket Island in the future.
The Indian Ocean Fleet attached considerable importance to Phuket Island. Among the three great fleets based in the East African mainland, although the Indian Ocean Fleet was the strongest, it lacked overseas bases. Over the past several decades, it had only added the Northern Bay Naval Base. Yet the Northern Bay Territory lacked fine harbors, so it could only accommodate some secondary capital ships.
The Persian Gulf was not without fine harbors, but they had long since been occupied by the British, such as Britain's Bahrain Naval Base.
Phuket Island, on the one hand, possessed an excellent harbor, and on the other, lay in the East Indian Ocean, a region the Indian Ocean Fleet had never set foot in. Naturally,