Examples of Preemptive War in the following topics:
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- In the 21st century, the Republican Party has been defined by social conservatism, a preemptive war foreign policy intended to defeat terrorism and promote global democracy, a more powerful executive branch, supply-side economics, support for gun ownership, and deregulation.
- Bush administration, neoconservative officials of the Departments of Defense and State helped to plan and promote the Iraq War.
- Bush suggested the possibility of preemptive war: "I will not wait on events, while dangers gather.
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- A preemptive war is a war that is commenced in an attempt to repel or defeat a perceived offensive or invasion, or to gain a strategic advantage in an impending (allegedly unavoidable) war before that threat materializes.
- It is a war that preemptively 'breaks the peace.'
- The Bush administration stated the Iraq War was part of the War on Terror, something that was later contested.
- Criticism of the War on Terror addresses the issues, morals, ethics, efficiency, economics, and other questions surrounding the War on Terror and made against the phrase itself, calling it a misnomer.
- It is argued that the term "war" is not appropriate in this context (as in "War on Drugs"), since there is no identifiable enemy, and that it is unlikely for international terrorism to be brought to an end by military means.
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- The King, many of the Feuillants, and the Girondins wanted to wage war.
- Louis XVI (and many Feuillants with him) expected war would increase his personal popularity.
- The forces opposing war were much weaker.
- France preemptively declared war on Austria (April 20, 1792) and Prussia joined on the Austrian side a few weeks later.
- Radical Frenchmen who called for war used it as a pretext to gain influence and declare war on April 20, 1792, leading to the campaigns of 1792 in the French Revolutionary Wars.
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- It included King George's War in North America, the War of Jenkins' Ear (formally began in 1739), the First Carnatic War in India, the Jacobite rising of 1745 in Scotland, and the war over Silesia (First and Second Silesian Wars).
- Frederick strongly suspected that the Austrians (who had subdued Bavaria but were still at war with France) would resume war with Prussia in an attempt to recover Silesia.
- Accordingly, he renewed his alliance with the French and preemptively invaded Bohemia in 1744.
- Thus the Second Silesian War (1744–1745) began.
- The battle was one of Prussia's great victories during the Second Silesian War.
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- In French-speaking Canada, it is known as the War of the Conquest, while it is called the Seven Years' War in English-speaking Canada (North America, 1754–1763), Pomeranian War (with Sweden and Prussia, 1757–1762), Third Carnatic War (on the Indian subcontinent, 1757–1763), and Third Silesian War (with Prussia and Austria, 1756–1763).
- Realizing that war was imminent, in 1756 Prussia preemptively struck Saxony and quickly overran it.
- 1762 brought two new countries into the war.
- Britain declared war against Spain and Portugal followed by joining the war on Britain's side.
- The Seven Years' War is sometimes considered the first true world war.
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- Although the question of whether the Seven Years' War was the first world war remains ambiguous, the war marked a shift in the European balance of power that shaped the world far beyond Europe.
- Because of its span and global impact, some historians have argued that the Seven Years' War was the first world war (it took place almost 160 years before World War I).
- However, this label has also been given to various earlier conflicts, including the Eighty Years' War, the Thirty Years' War, the War of the Spanish Succession and the War of the Austrian Succession, and to later conflicts, including the Napoleonic Wars.
- Although Frederick the Great's preemptive invasion of Saxony in 1756 marks the conventional beginning of the Seven Years' War, key developments in North America preceded the outbreak of the war in Europe.
- Assess the claim that the Seven Years' War was the first world war
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- Congress passed a series of laws sharply limiting a president's power to wage undeclared war, limiting campaign spending and strengthening public access to government information.
- Because of Nixon's party affiliation and the outrage over a preemptive pardon that Ford granted Nixon after he became president, people associated corruption with the Republican party initially.
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- New shares can be purchased on exchanges and current shareholders will usually have preemptive rights to newly issued shares.
- Current shareholders may have preemptive rights over new shares offered by the company.
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- This can be accomplished either through punishing someone immediately after the undesirable behavior so that they are reluctant to perform the behavior again or through educating people about the punishment preemptively so they are reluctant to perform the behavior at all.
- Prevention is a much cheaper and easier approach than waiting for something bad to happen, so preemptive education regarding rules and penalties for rule violation is common practice.
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- When a corporation has additional authorized shares of stock that are to be issued after the date of original issue, in most states the preemptive right requires offering these additional shares first to existing stockholders on a pro rata basis.
- However, firms may reissue treasury stock without violating the preemptive right provisions of state laws; that is, treasury stock does not have to be offered to current stockholders on a pro rata basis.