Presently, the military is required to be able to fight and win two major regional wars simultaneously.

There also is concern he might try to spark a regional war.

Israeli officials have told Americans that the weaponry makes even more sense in the context of regional war.

"These boundary disputes can lead to a series of regional wars."

Yet neither superpower has anything to gain from being drawn into a regional war.

Air power would be critical, not only to winning a major regional war, but to holding the line in a simultaneous conflict.

We will be stuck in a regional war for twenty years.

It was a humanitarian problem that can turn into a regional war.

The conflict must not be allowed to develop into a regional war.

What we have in Afghanistan is not a solitary conflict but a regional war that could develop further.