There must have been at least a dozen smarter, more experienced men eligible to become first lord of the admiralty, yet this pseudoaristocrat with little or no naval experience takes the post and performs dismally, but comes back time and again to perform dismally, until the Americans save him.
Hi 42RM,
I could go into detail, but watch the discovery channel's episode about the Folklands, in which British officers explain that had the Argentinians had more than a handful of WW II mines in Port Stanley or attacked the ships with their planes a little differently, the British would have lost and that they were running out of supplies, so had the Argentine forces held out for a few more days the fleet would have had to withdraw. Also the Argentine forces ran out of exocets, etc,