Back in 04 I got to spend about an hour one-on-one talking to Van Riper about that very exercise/simulation. I think he proved a point, about some of the faulty assumptions that under pinned US Navy thinking at the time, but I'm not the model he used to do it, was as achievable in reality as he suggests.
Point being, if the bad guys were a whole bunch of Van Ripers, then we do have a problem... but they're not.
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