Sarah Paine
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But then I read his book.
It's unbelievable.
It's
If you face a big ship, what do you do?
A more powerful ship, you attack.
If it's a smaller ship, what do you do?
You attack.
It's like, okay, one size fits all.
I mean, how unanalytical.
Here's what happens to him.
He comes in theater and within a month, another spoiler alert, he's dead.
How did that happen?
He followed his strategy.
That's how it happened.
What he does, he arrives.
Everyone's really excited because he's getting the guys out and thinking they're going to be doing things.
But on April 12th, the evening before he dies, there are a bunch of Japanese ships laying mines out of the harbor's entrance, and he mistakes them for Russian ships and tells his people, don't fire on them.
Oops.
And the next morning when he sorties with the whole fleet to be part of his, we're going to, it's always take the offensive.
Well, they didn't sweep the harbor insurance for mines.