One, as the Clinton Administration recently demonstrated, is to deter war.

The Pentagon contends that the primary role of the armed forces is to deter war, not to fight one.

The result: a greater reliance on nuclear weapons and air power to deter war.

The issue is how best to deter war, to keep the peace and to fulfill our country's unique responsibility as leader of the free world.

It is an act to deter war, to make the last option the use of force.

This, he argues, would raise the stakes and add to the West's capability to deter war.

But expansion recognizes that the best way to deter war is to commit to keeping the peace.

As a defensive alliance, it prepared to deter war by meeting threats.

If we fail to deter war, a tremendous number of civilians will be killed.

For half a century, diplomats here like to think, world-class chin music has helped deter global war.