Yeah Captain Queeg was the most successful officer in the navy…
He was the Captain of the USS Caine. Not too shabby.
I read the book. It’s a work of fiction. Within that semi-fictional world:
Queeg was personally an asshole and professionally a poltroon. The officers under him weren’t much better, for a variety of reasons. The real fault lay above Queeg himself:
1) I know they were desperate, WWII getting geared up and all, but Queeg was unfit for wartime command. He should have been shuffled off to some low stress shore command back CONUS. That was a not uncommon problem in the real US Navy in 1942. It took a while to get resolved. The fault here lies with Queegs superiors as much as with himself.
2) The officers under him did not have a military mindset. The CO may be a complete jackass; that doesn’t in any way diminish his legitimate authority, which they did not respect. This did not help matters.
3) I’m also thinking of CAPT Herbert Sobel (back in the real world) ... His LTs respected his authority, even while considering him unfit personally. Even the “mutinous” SGTs respected his authority; they expressed their displeasure by seeking transfer ... and some of them paid for it. It did get the message across, though.
Comparing the real Donald Trump to the fictitious Captain Queeg is absurd.