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Definition of Preventive strike
1. Noun. A strike that is carried out in order to deter expected aggression by hostile forces.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Preventive Strike
Literary usage of Preventive strike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Eizenstat Report and Related Issues Concerning United States and Allied edited by James A. Leach (1999)
"Hitler dispatched substantial military resources to Norway and even had his
military consider a preventive strike against Sweden. ..."
2. The Reluctant Sheriff: The United States After the Cold War by Richard N. Haass (1997)
"... it would be unthinkable to launch a preventive strike without the concurrence
of countries that would be affected, such as Japan and South Korea in any ..."
3. Man to Man: The Story of Industrial Democracy by John Leitch (1919)
"Is there not room for practicing a little preventive strike medicine? Strikes are
culminations of ill-will. Look at them from that angle. ..."
4. Man to Man: The Story of Industrial Democracy by John Leitch (1919)
"Is there not room for practicing a little preventive strike medicine? Strikes are
culminations of ill-will. Look at them from that angle. ..."
5. The Imperial Temptation: The New World Order and America's Purpose by Robert W. Tucker, David C. Hendrickson (1992)
"The American commitment to Israel's security, it was intimated, could only be
vindicated through a preventive strike comparable to that which Israel had ..."
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