Herbart understood Yudli's difficulties very well, so he reassured him, "You needn't worry about that. The supplies have already been prepared above; they should arrive in two or three days. You can come back in three days."
It was certainly too late to buy weapons from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but East Africa could still scrape together a batch of Austro-Hungarian weapons to provide to the Orange people.
After all, a country as large as East Africa would certainly procure small quantities of foreign arms, as did many countries. Yet what counted as "small quantities" to East Africa might not be small at all when placed in Orange.
The Orange people did not need too many rifles or much ammunition now, at least not in East Africa's view, because the Orange army was not very numerous. Before East Africa emerged, wars in Africa had long been kept below the scale of ten thousand men. Especially after the colonizers arrived, even a war involving a thousand men was considered a major conflict.
It was East Africa and the Italians who shattered the regional balance, dragging warfare in Sub-Saharan Africa into a race beyond the scale of ten thousand men. Especially during the East African colony era, when every citizen was a soldier, armed forces numbering over a hundred thousand were often deployed at the drop of a hat to clear out indigenous forces in the African interior.
After the military became professionalized, such grand scenes no longer existed. Yet East Africa's mobilization capacity had instead grown even stronger. It was simply that more mobilization mechanisms were now used for national infrastructure construction and similar matters—turning military reforms toward civilian use, while civilian systems could in turn be converted for military use. Of course, the fundamental reason was that East Africa now had