The argument is blunt: ships moving through a dangerous area should not offer submarines, mines, or torpedo forces an easy predictable track. Zigzagging is presented as a routine protective practice that commanders should internalize, not a sign of timidity. Nimitz's difficulty convincing some officers to adopt such habits illustrates how deeply peacetime culture can persist after a war begins. The wider lesson is that senior officers must adapt their conduct to real combat risk rather than preserve peacetime assumptions.
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Zigzagging as a practical wartime command habit
The stream uses zigzagging in a combat zone to contrast practical wartime thinking with peacetime habits and empty offensive rhetoric.