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单词 pre-emptive strike
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pre-emptive strike
3. Military. Of an offensive strategy or action: intended to forestall an enemy attack; frequently in pre-emptive strike (now frequently figurative).In technical use sometimes more narrowly defined: see quot. 1966.
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society > armed hostility > attack > [adjective] > other types of attack
feigned1598
overvaulting1879
frontal1884
tip-and-run1891
hit and run1940
pre-emptive1941
banzai1945
surgical1965
kamikaze1966
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > anticipation, forecast > [adjective] > that forecasts or anticipates
forecasting1548
foreguessing1548
pre-emptive1966
1941 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 26 Jan. This change of thought..is caused by the conviction that Hitler must attempt a pre-emptive move to counter the possibility of American intervention.
1958 H. S. Dinerstein in Foreign Affairs 36 249 It was precisely this need to prepare for more than deterrence and to prepare against surprise nuclear attack that was spelled out for the first time in Marshal Rotmistrov's article, published in February 1955... Rotmistrov stated that the Soviet Union must be ready to strike a preëmptive or forestalling blow, in case the United States was about to attack.
1959 H. S. Dinerstein War & Soviet Union vi. 193 In this statement Rotmistrov added two new facets to the doctrine of the pre-emptive strike.
1966 U. Schwarz & L. Hadik Strategic Terminol. 108 Pre-emptive strike, armed attack motivated by the conviction that an enemy attack is under way or is irreversibly imminent. Also called ‘forestalling blow’ or ‘anticipatory attack’, the pre-emptive strike differs from a so-called ‘preventive’ strike or war in that [etc.]. A strike or war..is preventive if the enemy still has the option of desisting from his planned aggression.
1967 Times 17 July 8/4 Some of them..are making a pre-emptive strike against the Chancellor before the decisions have been finally hammered out.
1989 G. T. Couser Altered Egos v. 88 The author can deploy selfparody as a kind of preemptive strike against the forgery of his style.
1991 Pacific Rev. 4 208 The SAF must aim to disable their Malaysian counterparts with a brutal and fearless pre-emptive strike.
2003 P. Todd & J. Bloch Global Issues vii. 178 The PNA promised to..‘undertake pre-emptive operations against terrorists’.
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pre-emptive strike
e. A sudden military attack concentrated on selected targets; also occasionally concrete, the force used in such an attack. Also (chiefly with reference to the use of nuclear weapons) preceded by a qualifying word, as first-strike, pre-emptive strike, second strike: see under the first elements.
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society > armed hostility > attack > [noun]
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grand slam1916
hop-over1918
run1941
strike1942
1942 [see strike patrol n. at Compounds 1b(a)].
1943 ‘T. Dudley-Gordon’ Coastal Command ii. 16 When the Admiralty desires a special reconnaissance or strike to be ‘laid on’.
1943 Yank 19 Nov. 3 But, when the last strike returned, there were no bullet holes, no torn fabric and the pilots climbed out unhurt.
1945 Times 3 May 3/3 Destroyers of the East Indies Fleet bombarded airfields..and followed this up with an air strike.
1963 Ann. Reg. 1962 520 The purpose of these bases can be none other than to provide a nuclear strike capability against the Western hemisphere.
1972 Newsweek 10 Jan. 1/1 Described by the Pentagon as ‘protective-reaction’ strikes, the bombings in fact signaled to the world the continuing U.S. interest in Southeast Asia.
1979 H. Kissinger White House Years xxiii. 983 The Son Tay raid was accompanied by a two-day strike by 200 airplanes against North Vietnamese supply installations.
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