I don't think it was an out-of-context quote. The author questioned why the (theoretically redundant) power and communications systems were knocked totally offl

I don't think it was an out-of-context quote. The author questioned why the (theoretically redundant) power and communications systems were knocked totally offline, which seems like a very fair question, and one of great importance. But I read it as a separate question from the issue of why the cargo ship was able to damage the Fitzgerald.