Sentence examples for deter wars from inspiring English sources

He emphasized that Army officers today have the responsibility to deter wars as well as to fight and win them.

When the nations of the world met amid the rubble left by a second world war, they were preoccupied with preventing it from happening again, and wrote a charter for the UN that stressed the sovereign rights of states to deter wars of aggression.

We allocate such assistance to help strengthen democracies, deter war and contain epidemics.

It is an act to deter war, to make the last option the use of force.

The threat of certain and rapid retaliation — the cocked-pistols standoff — was intended to deter war.

Is the voluntary association of democracies called NATO, organized to deter war more than to wage it, capable of sustaining a twenty or thirty years' war?

The Department's mission is to provide the military forces needed to deter war and to protect the security of the United States.

Military preparedness was at a peak, but armaments are responses to tensions, not the cause of them, and they had, perhaps, served to deter war in the numerous crises preceding 1914.

So War Against War! – republished in facsimile this year in the UK by the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation – poses a relevant question: why is it that showing people gruesome photographs of war injuries does not deter war?

"DoD will focus on ensuring it remains ready and able to adapt to a wide variety of threats - regardless of the source - to fulfill our mission to deter war and ensure our nation's security," Babb said.

Though a colorful, hard-charging advocate of aggressive offensive action, Mr. Mattis viewed a tough American posture overseas as a way to deter war, not to start them, with potential foes like Iran.