If the enemy is in range, so are you. War is like love. To triumph, you must make contact. Boldness becomes rarer, the higher the rank. Never reinforce failure.
Failure reinforces itself.
When a front line soldier overhears two General Staff officers conferring, he's fallen back too far. It isn't necessary to be an idiot to be a senior officer, but it sure helps. No captain can do very wrong who places his ship alongside that of the enemy. Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson 36. Only numbers can annihilate.