Jerry Pook

Ideally this book needs to be read alongside ward's book and also airwar south Atlantic or whatever it was called.

Pook thought that all the Naval officers were over rated, thoroughly incompetent and incapable of delegating decisions to someone who knew what they were doing. He says that orders were given and to be obeyed regardless of futility, impossibility or hazard and that any attempt to point out problems was treated as insubordination. The chief problem was that they did not understand how in detail to use the aircraft, they wouldn't learn and they would still insist on giving the orders. This was not just during the war Pook complains that the admiral aboard HMS Illustrious was giving orders that could have come from British Battler.

He also makes similar complaints about the RAF. When told to be ready for deployment as replacements for casualties he arranged extra training, only to be told he was trying it on. They only got the practice slots, which were being reserved for Tornados which could not be deployed to the Falklands, after a lot of arguing.… (meer)