belligerency

"We do want to have the region come to terms between all the countries and agree against any belligerency from any side to any other."

His belligerency and weapons programs make it difficult.

There’s long been controversy in Japan over Article 9 of the national constitution, which bans war as a method of settling international disputes, renounces “belligerency” and limits the country to fighting only in self-defense.

“Deterrence arises from strength and never from weakness, because weakness invites belligerency,” Mr. Pompeo said.

As Rosenberg notes, “The list of violent episodes would grow throughout the period of American belligerency and included, according to one account, the stoning of dachshunds on the streets of Milwaukee.”