A heavy cruiser makes the wrong asteroid-field choice

What is one of the least sensible fictional naval tactics in the books discussed?

Sending a heavy cruiser into an asteroid field when its elite fighters could enter while the cruiser supported them from safer space.

The Starfighter Rising series supplies an example of tactics judged especially poor: a heavy cruiser enters an asteroid field despite carrying three elite fighter squadrons. The proposed alternative keeps the expensive cruiser outside while the fighters go in. The cruiser could then fire from outside the field at threats to its smaller craft. The objection concerns the unnecessary exposure of the parent ship when its embarked force could undertake the dangerous part of the mission.