Royal Navy aggression as calculated risk

Did the Royal Navy's aggressive tradition ever hinder operations rather than help them?

Sometimes it created danger, but its overall value was positive because the doctrine emphasized calculated offensive risk rather than stupidity or automatic attack.

Aggressive training sometimes created danger, and individual actions could have gone either way. Its broader value came from teaching officers to seize the initiative while continuing to assess the mission, their force, and the likely consequences. That approach produced more successes than failures. The doctrinal dividing line lay between calculated offensive risk and reckless attack.