Friends who have watched the classic Drama "Mutiny" in Beijing Renyi know that the ostensible defendant of this drama is Marek, the executive officer of the "Kane", the actual defendant who was interrogated is Captain Craig, and the real defendant is Kiefer, the communications officer. However, since the advent of "Mutiny", there have been views that "Mutiny" also has a hidden defendant - U.S. Navy five-star Admiral William Halsey Jr.
Many people will wonder: in the characters of "Mutiny", the highest-ranking officer is only a colonel, how can it involve the highest-ranking five-star general in the United States? But what is less well known is that the U.S. Navy's five-star Admiral William H. Lee is not aware of the U.S. Navy's death. Admiral Halsey is mentioned several times in his lines, except that Mutiny translates Halsey's name as "Admiral Hausser."
According to the plot analysis of the drama "Mutiny" and the original novel "The Mutiny of the Kane", the two actions of the five-star Admiral William Halsey Jr. of the U.S. Navy led to the mutiny of the "Kane": first, Halsey did not find that the contradiction of the "Kane" had intensified to the point of mutiny. The drama "Mutiny" mentions that Marek was ready to report the contradictions on the ship to Halsey before the mutiny.
In the original novel, The Mutiny of the Kane, Marek, Keith, and Kiefer almost break into Halsey's captain's room, where Halsey's lieutenant is always present. Marek, Keith, and Kiefer behave abnormally, but fail to get Halsey's attention. If Halsey had sensed that there was a problem with the Kane and intervened early, the Kane might not have mutinied.
The second is that The Kane encounter with typhoon is Halsey's wrong command. It should be known that during the World War II period, when weather measurement and forecasting technology was relatively mature, U.S. warships generally avoided typhoons in advance. In December 1944 (a few days before the Cairn mutiny erupted), Halsey received Typhoon Cobra about to pass through the Philippine waters where its fleet was located, and Halsey could have avoided the typhoon in advance.
However, Halsey had only seen hurricanes in the Atlantic ocean and tornadoes on the American continent before, and never seen typhoons in the Pacific. Full of curiosity and a "spirit of adventure", Halsey decided to "meet" the typhoon and commanded the fleet into the vicinity of the typhoon's most powerful eye. Halsey's fleet sailed for several hours in a storm of 160 kilometers per hour and an average wave height of more than 21 meters.
Halsey's miscommunication resulted in the direct sinking of three destroyers of his fleet, the serious injury of nine destroyers, the scrapping of 146 aircraft, the fire of two aircraft carriers, the damage to more than a dozen aircraft carriers, and the losses inflicted on the U.S. Pacific Navy second only to pearl harbor. Due to the excessive losses, Halsey himself was even court-martialed afterwards.
With his old subordinate, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Halsey was not held accountable and reinstated. Hilariously, in June 1945, Halsey's second command fleet sailed into a typhoon, causing heavy damage again and again not being held accountable. The Taiwan risk situation mentioned in "Mutiny" is the dangerous situation that Halsey encountered when he first commanded the fleet into the typhoon.
It can be said that without Halsey's wrong command, the "Kane" of "Mutiny" would not have encountered a typhoon, and the contradiction of "Kane" would not have been aggravated by the typhoon. In summary, The five-star Admiral Halsey, who failed to detect the Kane and the two-time command of the fleet into the typhoon, was responsible for the mutiny of the Kane and was the hidden defendant in the drama "Mutiny".