Has the United Sates ever engaged in a preemptive war in her history? What would you classify Panama and Grenada? I'm asking to satisfy my own curiosity.
Has the United Sates ever engaged in a preemptive war in her history? What would you classify Panama and Grenada? I'm asking to satisfy my own curiosity.
All it takes is READING the forum titles. They're in this wondrous language called English. Try it sometime.
Preemptive War - War that is not in response to attack or immediate threat.
Bush II - Iraq
Obama - Libya
Bush II, Obama - Drone strikes outside of Afghanistan, Pakistan border region and Iraq.
Reagan - Grenada
Bush I - Panama
No, justification for that was that Libyan regime was attacking its own civilians, not that it was a threat to US or any other country.
Then you should post them in the appropriate forum. Post-1900 isn't it for the question you asked.
preemptive war in and of itself is value neutral, some can be justified or even good, just as they can be bad and unjustified
preemptive war in and of itself is value neutral, some can be justified or even good, just as they can be bad and unjustified
Preemptive War - War that is not in response to attack or immediate threat.
The Mexican-American war and WWII are examples of the opposite of preemptive war. The MO in these wars is the following:
Take a bunch of very aggressive but plausibly deniable actions that are just short of war. Provoke the other side into shooting first. In WWII we did this with an oil embargo and brinksmanship in the Atlantic. In the Mexican-American war we did it with a deliberately vague border line and aggressive patrols in the disputed area.
Wave the bloody shirt and prosecute the war aggressively.
This little dance is needed because the population would balk at declaring war as a 'bolt from the blue'.