One team, fast in, kill the opposition, do the job, fast out. Job done, if job well done almost nobody noticed the presence. And everything done by a heavy teamworking, highly skilled and well trained personnel. --LasseMirkovic

... and such an elegant metaphor for a job well done.  --RonJeffries

Unfortunately, there are more "regular army" than there are Green Beret.  And also a lot of "untrained militia".

''In and out fast is a consulting perspective...''

"Do the job, fast out, and don't worry about the mess left behind, someone else will clean it up" is how I've seen this work in practice. --DaveSmith
''Which is exactly how the green berets work...''

Hit '''only''' the intended target. Do so with a minimum of fanfare and a maximum of concentrated, focused violence. Leave no evidence other than enemy corpses. Sometimes not even that. (Well, I do leave documents behind to show the trail of my work.)

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''Surely this analogy is a bit tasteless in the light of what has happened (is happening) in the Gulf?  --BillWeston''

This analogy was put in place before The Bush League picked a useless fight in Iraq, if that's what you are referring to. Regardless, there is never a "good" time to talk about death and killing, so why should now be any different? Recognize and appreciate the irony and iconoclasm of the statement for what it is.

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The above analogy seems to me sort of like the early development work of an XP/Agile project - i.e. SpikeSolution''''''s, and getting "end-to-end" as fast as possible.  That early work requires focused effort with a specific objective.  The rest gets "filled in" as the project progresses.  -- MikeSmith
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Sound more like RangerCoding. From what I understand, today's Green Berets tend to nurture the insurgents inside a community, support revolutionary actions, train the locals. The key is to be self-sustaining, covert, and enable others to fight for the revolution. --JosephHolsten

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See also PlaySoldier