Andrew Krepinevich, director of defense think tank the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, makes that clear in his 2009 book 7 Deadly Scenarios: A Military Futurist Explores War in the 21st Century (Bantam Books).
While the competition is pure sportsmanship, many of the events the teams compete in mimic deadly real-life scenarios that special units must be prepared for; perhaps none more so than host country Jordan.
It has a sort of hunter and hunted feel to it, evoking some kind of deadly hide and seek scenario in which Britain is an idyllic back garden littered with bear traps ready to mangle the shins of any foreigners who dare tread near the rose patch of residence.
In contemplating this nightmare scenario, Taylor grows deadly serious.
In "The Tiger," out last week from Knopf, John Vaillant confronts us with that very scenario, revisiting a deadly, mysterious tiger attack in 1997 that shocked the residents of Primorye Territory, in Russia's Far East.
Governments operate on a budget – and applying a budget to cervical cancer prevention means they need to choose between saving young women from a rare but deadly disease, and avoiding a scenario where thousands of women who were screened below the age of 25 experience complications in pregnancy.
