  The center-stabilized multiflavor QCD* theories formulated on R_3 x S_1
exhibit both Abelian and non-Abelian confinement as a function of the S_1
radius, similar to the Seiberg-Witten theory as a function of the mass
deformation parameter. For sufficiently small number of flavors and small
r(S_1), we show occurence of a mass gap in gauge fluctuations, and linear
confinement. This is a regime of confinement without continuous chiral symmetry
breaking (\chi SB). Unlike one-flavor theories where there is no phase
transition in r(S_1), the multiflavor theories possess a single phase
transition associated with breaking of the continuous chiral symmetry. We
conjecture that the scale of the \chi SB is parametrically tied up with the
scale of Abelian to non-Abelian confinement transition.
