He parachuted onto the ship to do that?
Actually, to avoid the consquences of a mistaken call, he had to issue "take no action" orders with enough wriggle room that the US Navy Captain could interpret them proactively.
I disagree. I think zero thought he’d issued total “no action” orders with fluff for the MSM to spin. Being a neophyte with no respect for the military, he didn’t understand that the captain would be smart enough to use that fluff to enable action, which is exactly what the captain did.
And then the MSM spun it to give zero all the credit (or tried to).