Each Administration and every major study, review, and strategy document continued to plan for two major operations in overlapping time frames.
Thus, the idea of conducting two regional conflicts simultaneously was abandoned in favor of less precise terms, such as overlapping time frames or on short notice.
The requirement to perform two such operations in an overlapping time frame, while maintaining other critical deployment and retain a strategic reserve would strain a force of this size and character, perhaps to the breaking point.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Section IV: Building a Two-MRC Force for the 21st Century
Nothing in the evolving global security environment suggests that the U.S. military will be unshackled from the basic requirement to deter if possible, but fight and win if necessary, two geographically separated major theater conflicts in overlapping time frames.
As a global power with worldwide interests, it is imperative that the United States now and for the foreseeable future be able to deter and defeat large-scale, cross-border aggression in two distant theaters in overlapping time frames, preferably in concert with regional allies.
Senior decision makers across five Administrations, Republican and Democrat, have been unable to avoid the reality that, in a world of continuing globalization and growing political and military uncertainty, the U.S. needs a military that is large enough and has a sufficient range of capabilities to cover multiple major military contingencies in overlapping time frames.
In a game of few chances, Borthwick spurned an opportunity for Saracens just before half-time when he chose to drive for the line rather than making use of the overlapping runs to his left.
First, the discipline imposed by the debt rule would have to bite gradually, rather than all at once, allowing time for corrective action, and avoiding sudden rollover crises so the plan calls for overlapping tranches of short-term debt.
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