but the problem with it is we get no informations.
Like the "only 1 out of 5 planes start"-problem... the logic says, we have prepared 2 Weeks, every engine works, no problems... the pilots are rested, fuel and ammo is here... our recons/radars detect the carrier task force, around 120 miles outside... and what do we do ? Nothing. Just sit and wait. That sounds strange.
Nope. It does NOT sound strange. It sounds NORMAL. You are in the jungle. You are using near the state of the art machines not entirely reliable yet. Rats eat the wires. Microscopic living things we have never heard of eat fabrics and other materials. Water condensation changes the electrical resistence of the air or insulation (they use fabric insulation then - no plastic yet). A simple motor vehicle (not nearly as complex as a combat aircraft) is "more trouble than it is worth" to maintain after just 30,000 miles in these conditions (and the design life is 100,000 miles, with many often able to well exceed - even double - that). Then there are the really big factors - human ones. Humans are sick. In a jungle hex you probably catch malaria AND denge fever (both). [EVERY person on Bataan had both. There was only quinine for Malaria - and it only works 70% of the time. If you are exposed - bitten - every day - you are 30% likely to be infected in 1 day, 51% in 2 days, 65% in 3 days, 76% in 4 days, 83% in 5 days, 88% in 6 days, 92% in a week - with only one bite a day - impossible. And there is NO prophalactic for dengue fever, not even today. If you go outside at night, you will get it.] Conditions eat your maps and documents - and even a person with a photographic memory for maps and documents cannot create the effect of these things on the planning table for the whole staff to see. The list is endless.
