Pay attention to the meeting the captain had with the officers and chiefs on the mess deck. His analysis was actually a system geared toward the assessment of the probability of the Card’s success in the combat exercises.

The captain was unofficially conducting a SWOT analysis SWOT is a structured planning method used to evaluate the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats when considering some new or unique business activity. The technique is credited to Albert Humphrey, of the Stanford Research Institute (now SRI International).