I have no idea who or what a Mandrake is but it seems clear that you don't seem to be having very much fun with SH3.
Or for that matter understanding how subordinates do not get to select which orders to follow and which to just say "No thanks, I'll sit this one out." You can do so in the game but then you brought up real life with:
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Doenitz had no trouble giving those orders, since the only thing that could happen to him is to cut himself while shaving in the morning
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Doenitz did his time as a U-Boat commander, as a torpedo boat flotilla leader, a cruiser captain and then as BdU. Presumably he followed orders as best he could and expected his subordinates to do the same. Invoking his distance from the front in a game context is actually a pretty disingenuous and even dishonest unless it's applied equally to practically every senior commander in the 20th Century. Doing that will just display a massive ignorance of how military's function in the real world.
While I am not a fan of Doenitz for a variety of reasons, implying that he was indifferent is just plain garbage unsupported by any evidence.
We get it, you don't like the game, you don't like shallow water ops (who does but sometimes they're necessary), you don't like the fatigue model (use SH3 Commander and turn it off) and you have no idea how a naval command hierarchy actually works.
-C