A preemptive war is a war that is commenced in an attempt to repel or defeat a perceived imminent offensive or invasion, or to gain a strategic advantage...

legal questions surrounding the launching of the war against Iraq and the Bush Doctrine of preemptive war in general. On 16 September 2004, Kofi Annan, the...

chance to shift in the favor of the targeted party. Preventive war is distinct from preemptive strike, which is the first strike when an attack is imminent...

merits of preemptive war. Many in the West also seriously discussed the idea of preventive and preemptive war. Truman rejected preventive war, stating...

casualties from the Iraq War (beginning with the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and the ensuing occupation and insurgency and civil war) have come in several forms...

Lebensraum, Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, using the casus belli of preemptive war to justify the act of aggression.[citation needed] Many historians have...

In nuclear strategy, a first strike or preemptive strike is a preemptive surprise attack employing overwhelming force. First strike capability is a country's...

Agamben, the Italian philosopher, has offered a critique of the logic of preemptive war. Although Iraq was known to have pursued an active nuclear weapons development...

process without its cooperation in order to perform another task Preemptive war or preemptive strike Traffic signal preemption This disambiguation page lists...

al-Qaeda and the Islamic State—in various countries. The Bush Doctrine of preemptive war saw the U.S. invade Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003. In addition...