Original sentence: The small "tincan" destroyer, armed with nothing larger than  guns and torpedoes, would lead the attack of a handful of light ships which had inadvertently been left unprotected in the path of a massive Japanese fleet led by battleships and cruisers
Edited sentence: The small "tincan" destroyer, armed with nothing larger than  guns and torpedoes, would lead the attack of a handful of light ships which had inexcusably been left unprotected in the path of a massive Japanese fleet led by battleships and cruisers