Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-64.113.177.152-20150121173112/@comment-70.72.38.180-20150322002857

^True. I think Ozpin's mistake is that he sent a rookie team like team RWBY to do the recon instead of a vetean team (surely there must have been 2-4th year student available) or just Oobleck (recon can be solo job sometimes). Yeah they had some victories but they are still 'weak' as huntresses and don't really seem to understand that sometimes it's better to leave it the professionals and not try to be a hero (by that I mean taking the situation into their own hands).

For Ironwood, I think he's one of the 'many mistakes' Ozpin has made in the past and is the reason why Ironwood is who he is. It's was obvious that Ironwood has never trusted Ozpin's judgement. If he did then he wouldn't have brought his army overseas with him. He was basically saying "I don't trust you and I'm going to prove that my way is better with my big army." Like Glynda said Ironwood treats everything like a contest of you-know-what. In other words, Ironwood's lack of trust in anyone is clouding his judgement on the situation and subconciously wants to "get back" at whatever Ozpin did to him in the past. By having an army around the people are going to feel scared and little opressed (what makes you think Ironwood would hand the reigns back to Ozpin after the festival? Again, he doesn't trust him.), Ruby is not going to like it one bit, and Roman will likely drive the General to paranoia until he makes a mistake himself and this time he won't have Ozpin to blame.