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
Until the end of the crisis, the idea of a preventive war continually recurred to my mind.
From World's War Events, Vol. I by Reynolds, Francis J. (Francis Joseph)
