A soldier must obey his explicit orders: "any engagement with forces of superior or even equal strength must be avoided at all costs. This also applies if the two battleships should encounter a single enemy ship armed with 15" guns."."Only a dour, authoritarian, charisma-free mediocrity like Lutjens would have accepted such ludicrously-specific constraints in the first place."
A concept possibly a bit too difficult to be understood, having never served....
I guess this "crusader" (his words) is just impotently angry and tries (ineffectively) to throw mud at Adm.Lutjens because he inflicted an humilating defeat to the RN at Denmark Strait, exactly by ignoring his "fighting instructions" (that would have asked for PG to be immediately sent away from the line of fire), employing an original tactics, and not disobeying explicit orders.
I know another flag officer who (at Denmark Strait) was even worse than a "timid and charisma-free mediocrity" while deciding not to engage the enemy because (accordingly to the same crusaders) of his "fighting instructions"...
I see Mr.Wadinga now prefers to discuss Lutjens qualities, after having been blatantly cornered in the reconstruction of the battle here (viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8335&start=360#p81978).... what a pity, to loose his contribution...
Bye, Alberto