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Preventive war

"Preventive war" in a Sentence (2 examples)

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

We do not believe in aggressive or preventive war. Such war is the weapon of dictators, not of free democratic countries like the United States.

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