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Actually the existence of that Naval Tradition as it stood at the time of Nelson is why I rate him as high or higher, because Nelson had the brilliance to realize when he had to *break* tradition and do things differently even at the risk of being condemned to death for violating orders if his...

The Japanese 'naval tradition' was exclusively based on closing in and boarding, little different from the Roman tradition of centuries earlier. Their ships were very lightly built, very fast, but not very agile, excellent sea-boats, but deep drafted and poor in the littorals. What Yi Sun-Sin...

Which is why I rate him as a top-tier naval officer, but he isn't *god tier* like so many people seem to think he is. Honestly, his very lack of knowledge of naval matters helped him, he came in with no preconceptions.

This is going to be controversial but... I would argue that, given the technological and tactical disparity between the Korean vessels, both the Geobukseon (turtle ships) and the 'standard' Panoksean type ships over the Japanese vessels, that any actually competent admiral would have had the...