Neta C. Crawford (20(b), 'The Slippery Slope to Preventive War, Ethics ana International Affairs, 17, pp. 30-36.

The Bush administration's arguments in favor of a preemptive doctrine rest on the view that warfare has been transformed. As Colin Powell argues, "It's a different world ... it's a new kind of threat."1 And in several important

respects, war has changed along the lines the administration suggests, although

that transformation has been under way for at least the last ten to fifteen years.