#abda

start a DND game with the other abd's

When reconsidering the debacle that befell on the Allied forces in the Netherlands East Indies in early 1942, it is hard not to feel as if one is viewing a colossal tragedy that no Western military commanders might have eluded, let alone overcome. There one must concede that ABDAFLOAT’s limited naval forces would have produced no better results in the final analysis, whether commanded by Bill Halsey, Raymond Spruance, Frank Jack Fletcher, James Somerville, or Andrew Cunningham.

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At the time, of course, the catastrophe suffered by Rear Admiral Doorman’s Combined Striking Force in the Java Sea had set off a blizzard of messages among the various commands: Which ships had survived the battle and how many of these were still combat-worthy? Where were these surviving vessels licking their wounds? The truth is that these questions—to the extent they pertained to Allied offensive capabilities—no longer mattered in the least; the remnants of the variegated fleet had been shattered, scattered, and neutralized as decisively as Humpty Dumpty. . . . The vessels still afloat were intent on one thing at that stage and only one: escaping the East Indies slaughterhouse. And nothing would ever put the Allies’ naval striking force back together again.

hey Nebris, what does NAP stand for again?