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
Concerning the latter, there is no bright line, but there is a distinction to be drawn, however imprecisely, between preemptive war and preventive war.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 6, 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 Richard Burdon Haldane, Viscount Haldane
