Sentence examples for as a preventive war from inspiring English sources

By Gabriel Gorodetsky.Yale; 424 pages; $29.95 & £25INFLUENTIAL German and Austrian historians have condoned Hitler's invasion of Russia on June 22nd 1941 as a preventive war.

Something "had" to be done, and Berlin gave its client a blank check to issue an ultimatum so extreme as to force war, a "preventive" war whose scope snowballed because of an unbroken chain of miscalculations into the First World War.

Yet a defeat at the council would create a legal nightmare as well, because this is a preventive war, not a pre-emptive one.

Whatever the Afghanistan war's origins (and they were retributive, not preventive, except in the sense that every war, and every act of statecraft, is aimed at "preventing" something), this is not a preventive war.

He also will not start a preventive war with Iran.

The Iraq conflict, by contrast, was a preventive war.

"That's a textbook case of a preventive war," the senior Administration official told me.

One could argue that this was not even a "preventive war" given the circumstances.

The declaration reads: "The undersigned oppose a preventive war against Iraq without broad international support.

You guys had better start preparing now for a preventive war!

Some hawks even promoted the concept of a "preventive war", to thwart strengthening foes.