 | Seyom Brown - 2004 - Страниц: 220
...www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/nss.honl [Decemher 13, 2002)). 50. 1bid. The United States has long maintained the option of preemptive actions to counter a sufficient threat...The greater the threat, the greater is the risk of inaction—and the more compelling the case for taking anticipatory action to defend ourselves, even... | |
 | Eugene R. Wittkopf, James M. McCormick - 2004 - Страниц: 420
...weapons of mass destruction. Also, it asserted that the United States reserved to itself "the option of preemptive actions to counter a sufficient threat to our national security." This strategy, in the words of one analyst, "could be ... the most important reformulation of US grand... | |
 | Armin Von Bogdandy, Rüdiger Wolfrum, Christiane E. Philipp - 2004 - Страниц: 479
...statement occasions no fundamental change in concept: "The United States has long maintained the option of preemptive actions to counter a sufficient threat...The greater the threat, the greater is the risk of inaction—and the more compelling the case for taking anticipatory action to defend ourselves, even... | |
 | Bryan Hilliard, Tom Lansford, Robert P. Watson - 2004 - Страниц: 302
...destruction (WMD) or their precursors." Further, "The United States has long maintained the option of preemptive actions to counter a sufficient threat...The greater the threat, the greater is the risk of inaction—and the more compelling the case for taking anticipatory action to defend ourselves, even... | |
 | Niels M. Blokker, N. J. Schrijver - 2011 - Страниц: 548
...bench stone for any policy of pre-emption to even be thought about', The Times (22 November 2003). of pre-emptive actions to counter a sufficient threat...national security. The greater the threat, the greater the risk of inaction - and the more compelling the case for taking anticipatory action to defend ourselves,... | |
 | Christian Walter, Silja Vöneky, Volker Röben, Frank Schorkopf - 2004 - Страниц: 1516
...option of pre-emptive actions to counter a "sufficient threat" to national security. The document states "The greater the threat, the greater is the risk of...inaction — and the more compelling the case for anticipatory action to defend ourselves, even if uncertainty remains as to the time and place of the... | |
 | William J. Crotty - 2004 - Страниц: 340
...century" (Bush 2002c). The president went on to say: "The United States has long maintained the option of preemptive actions to counter a sufficient threat to our national security. . . . the United States will, if necessary, act preemptively" (Bush 2002a). However, it was not "preemptive"... | |
 | Alexander T.J. Lennon, Camille Eiss - 2004 - Страниц: 396
...capabilities and objectives of today's adversaries. ... The United States has long maintained the option of preemptive actions to counter a sufficient threat to our national security. ... The United States will not use force in all cases to preempt threats nor should nations use preemption... | |
 | Nicholas Guyatt - 2003 - Страниц: 340
...terrorists and rogue states. The document pointed out that 'the United States has long maintained the option of pre-emptive actions to counter a sufficient threat to our national security'. In this new incarnation, however, the Bush administration promised not only to take military action... | |
 | Jennifer Gunning, Søren Holm - 2005 - Страниц: 330
...adopt the concept of imminent threat to the capabilities and objectives of today's adversaries. ... The greater the threat, the greater is the risk of...taking anticipatory action to defend ourselves.... To forestall or prevent such hostile acts by our adversaries, the United states will, if necessary,... | |
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The United States has long maintained the option of preemptive actions to counter a sufficient threat to our national security. 
