Perhaps to someone better versed in navy language referring to a character as "the Admiral", when there are at least six Admirals in a story, would not be confusing. However, I could not tell who was who, much less why they were behaving in the way they were. What can I say except that the motives were muddy, the plot was moldy, the characters were transparent or opaque, the writing simplistic and the book overall just....boring.