Yet even the war scenario depicts a short-lived price spike with prices falling sharply after the conflict ends.

"Now we still have a global recession case, but it's also a war scenario."

"I don't see a war scenario on either side," he said.

Though the Pentagon controls the war scenarios as part of its planning process, Congress controls the financing for forces and weapons through the military budget.

Therefore possible future game expansions might be set in any war scenario of the last 60 years or more.

We're prepared to compete in a conventional war scenario.

We're not prepared to compete in a thermonuclear war scenario.

Values crept back up during the rest of the afternoon as brokers assessed possible war scenarios.

When we think of armed conflict and most traditional war scenarios, we imagine men as the main victims.

But there is a fundamental flaw in the war scenario that Mr. Frankel does not address.