war of aggression
English
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Noun
[edit]war of aggression (plural wars of aggression)
- (international law) A military conflict waged without the justification of self-defense, usually for territorial gain and subjugation.
- Synonym: war of conquest
- Antonym: just war
- 2011, Carl Schmitt, edited by Timothy Nunan, Writings on War, Polity, →ISBN, page 149:
- The crime of war, the crime of the war of aggression, and the crime of aggression are clearly three different crimes with three different facts of the case. For a complex judgment of war, they nonetheless overlap with one another, and their separation seems to a large section of public opinion a mere juridical artifice.
Translations
[edit]military conflict waged without the justification of self-defense, usually for territorial gain and subjugation
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