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Aggression
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Unjustified planned, threatened, or carried out use of force by one nation against another.

The key word in the definition of aggression is "unjustified"—that is, in violation of International Law, treaties, or agreements. It was the basic charge leveled against Nazi Germany at the Nuremberg Trials in 1946.
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Indeed, language has an inherent impotence as well as a disposition towards aggressivity.
The Menil collection: Houston, Texas by Van Dyke, Kristina / African Arts
651, 751 (1996) ("[T]here is much to be gained and little to be lost by changing this aspect of military culture from a masculinist vision of unalloyed aggressivity to an ungendered vision combining aggressivity with compassion.
Constructing the co-ed military by Donnelly, Elaine / Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy
Without an opening to the future, the reversion to violence and aggressivity always remains possible.
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