Defensive war
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A defensive war is one of the causes that justify war by the criteria of the Just War tradition. It means a war where one nation is mainly trying to defend itself from another, as opposed to a war where both sides are trying to invade and conquer each other.
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- The Darius' Invasions of the Greco-Persian Wars. Greeks were defending their homeland from the Persians.
- The war between the North and South in the American Civil War, 1861-1865. The South was largely fighting a war of defense, while the North was attacking to forcibly reunite the separated nation.
- Various invasions in World War II, such as the Invasion of Poland, the Battle of France, and the Battle of Britain and the Japanese Second Sino-Japanese War were wars of defense.
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