Quote Originally Posted by COMMAR View Post
It was supposed to be a Blue Team highlight reel. They brought Van Riper out of retirement to prove him wrong after publicly criticizing their so called Advances, saying that an Unconventional force of Small Boats Armed w/a few Conventional Arms (Hybrid) would Neutralize the whole Fleet.
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.