And whether or not it was just my

selfish wish having Satsuki taken away in such unsightly way...

Putting many more others through danger to rescue one single person, depends on circumstances, it will be all just sacrifices.

As a strategy, well, it's a stupid one... But considering it strictly to shipgirls, it's "Correct".

Those ladies are not like the the top brass, they might not be doing all that war stuff because they like it after all.

If you are the kind of commander who easily cut down on his subordinates,

you would have been shot from behind long ago.