Sentence examples for use of preventive war from inspiring English sources

During the ceremony, some of the speakers hinted their opposing views of Bush's use of preventive war.

Poland used the threat of preventive war to maneuver Germany into a series of agreements designed to buy time to prepare for the inevitable war Piłsudski saw coming.

Overestimation of this threat was then used to justify the elevation of preventive war to the centerpiece of a new security strategy, as well as a whole series of measures that infringed on civil liberties, from detention policy to domestic eavesdropping.

America's perma-hawks — the politicians and pundits who beat the drums for intervention in Iraq and now criticize President Obama for insufficient bellicosity about Ukraine — need to explain why the infinitely self-serving doctrine of "preventive war," which they used to justify our Iraq adventure, should be reserved for us alone.

They applaud his doctrine of preventive war.

The doctrine of preventive war is another reason rogue states want a nuclear deterrent.

The latter position comes uncomfortably close to the discredited doctrine of preventive war.

Moltke had already raised the notion of preventive war, and in the kaiser's war council of December 1912 he blustered, "War, the sooner the better".

The White House could put these suspicions to rest by renouncing President Bush's doctrine of preventive war.

The candidates also need to tell Americans where they stand on the larger issue of preventive war.

Concluding that eradicating terrorism meant going permanently on the offensive, he promulgated a doctrine of preventive war.