Sentence examples for defensive wars from inspiring English sources

"I think he favored defensive wars, if you will, or wars in defense of innocent people being slaughtered," Mr. Clinton argued.

Were defensive wars permissible?

Both frame their struggle as defensive wars of survival.

All of these reforms were instituted gradually, during defensive wars whose success demonstrated the regime's efficiency.

After the second world war, Nazi leaders were indicted for crimes against peace and the UN charter established a distinction between aggressive and defensive wars.

Whereas the Crusades were initially framed as defensive wars to reclaim Christian lands that had been conquered by non-Christians, the resulting theoretical innovations played an important role in subsequent attempts to justify the conquest of the Americas.

We shall not be content with a defensive war.

"Every war we have fought was a defensive war," he said.

"We are engaged in a defensive war which is internationally defined as legal".

"It is an instrument of offensive and defensive war against the enemy".

A defensive war is still a war with all its suffering and destruction.