191. Just a technical point: Pre-emptive war used to be the standard for dealing with an identified
and demonstrably imminent threat. It's what we were TOLD we were going to do to Iraq. We were supposedly going to pre-empt their attack on us.
What we got instead was Preventative War, war against a nation for something less specifically identified that it MIGHT or MIGHT NOT be capable of. This was a fundamental change in defense policy.
The change from Pre-emptive to Preventative was the discussion there for a while several years ago, but it has been replaced with no differentiation between the two and both strategic conditions labeled Pre-emptive.
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