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Preventive war

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Noun
  1. 1
    War started by one of the parties without having received any attack from the other party. This type of war is initiated by states unable to use diplomacy

    "The German war against Poland initiated by Hitler was justified as a preventive war by Carl Schmitt, German jurist and philosopher"

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