In the battle for singapore, a bunch of these commanders simply ripped up the order. Most never told them what the commanders were saying because they knew that troops on the ground were being treated as though they were top notch. The problem has to do more with the fact that they have a lot of armor piercing shells and not a lot of high explosive ones. Those big gns that everybody counts on to be so formidable and disrupt anything really are meant to be used against naval targets.