What's worse is part of her plan is to literally lead the enemy to the secret base.(A plan spoiled when that guy basically tells the empire "Hey look out the windows") If you want the audience to buy that she's one of the best leaders in the rebellion it would have helped to have a scene where she did anything that demonstrated that."Let's run away from the bad guys and hope we don't run out of gas" while the bad guys who could easily overtake them just follow because they don't want to run out of lasers.