preventive strike

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• preventive strike — noun a strike that is carried out in order to deter expected aggression by hostile forces • Syn: ↑preventive attack • Hypernyms: ↑strike …   Useful english dictionary

• preventive attack — noun a strike that is carried out in order to deter expected aggression by hostile forces • Syn: ↑preventive strike • Hypernyms: ↑strike …   Useful english dictionary

• preventive — preventive, preventative Both words are in use as adjectives meaning ‘serving to prevent’, especially in medicine, and also as nouns denoting a substance or procedure that does this. Preventive is the commoner by a long way (with four times as… …   Modern English usage

• Preventive war — A Preventive war or Preventative war is a war initiated under the belief that future conflict is inevitable, though not imminent. Preventive war aims to forestall a shift in the balance of power Taming American Power, Stephen M. Walt, pp 224] by… …   Wikipedia

• preventive war — Mil. an attack against a possible enemy to prevent an attack by that enemy at a later time. Also called preemptive strike. [1630 40] * * * preventive war, an aggressive war waged against another nation, supposedly started in anticipation of… …   Useful english dictionary

• preventive war — Mil. an attack against a possible enemy to prevent an attack by that enemy at a later time. Also called preemptive strike. [1630 40] * * * …   Universalium

• preemptive strike. — See preventive war. [1955 60] * * * …   Universalium

• preemptive strike. — See preventive war. [1955 60] …   Useful english dictionary

• Operation Opera — For the Yugoslav Wars operation, see Operation Opera Orientalis. Babylon Part of Arab–Israeli Conflict Map of the attack …   Wikipedia

• Attack on Pearl Harbor — Part of the Pacific Theater of World War II …   Wikipedia

• Events leading to the attack on Pearl Harbor — More than a decade s worth of events leading to the attack on Pearl Harbor occurred prior to the actual attack. War between Japan and the United States had been a possibility that each nation s militaries planned for since the 1920s, though real… …   Wikipedia