preventive war
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Just months before joining the administration, he tried to make the legal case for a preventive war against Pyongyang.
From The Guardian • May 16, 2019
And there is National Security Advisor General HR McMaster, who's been the most vocal about the possibility of a "preventive war" to stop North Korea from threatening the US with a nuclear weapon.
From BBC • Mar. 16, 2018
“In post-Iraq America, I cannot see that preventive war is a politically palatable solution,” said Auslin, whose new book is called “The End of the Asian Century.”
From Washington Post • Oct. 17, 2017
It repudiates not only preventive war, but also the fantasy that economic sanctions can bring down or fundamentally alter hostile regimes.
From Time • Apr. 8, 2015
The military party in the former country began to talk of a "preventive" war pretty loudly.
From Before the War by Haldane, R. B. Haldane (Richard Burdon Haldane), Viscount
