Admiral Andrew Cunningham's Mediterranean operations show why a dispersed enemy can be harder to read than a single concentrated fleet. Italian commanders could respond more easily when Britain ran only one or two large convoys. A dozen convoys moving while the fleet, Force H, and Force K conducted separate operations produced too many possible intentions and reports. The comparison explains Japan's preference for coercing an opponent into concentration: information saturation could overwhelm command even when individual sightings were accurate.
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How dispersed British operations overloaded Italian command
Cunningham's Mediterranean operations show how simultaneous convoys and task-force movements could overwhelm an opponent with too many reports and possible intentions.