For example, the near-simultaneity of the meltdown with the Libyan crisis is fortuitous as it directly reminds the public of the consequences of oil reliance.
Although the BUR endorsed the principle of maintaining a force structure capable of fighting and decisively winning two MRCs, it hedged on the question of simultaneity.
Technically speaking, a big challenge in this area of research was to deal with a classic instance of the so-called simultaneity problem: incarceration rates affect crime rates, but the converse is also true.