prowar
Supporting military action
Prowar describes support for military action or armed conflict.
The term appears most often in political contexts where positions for and against war are being contrasted: prowar lawmakers, prowar demonstrations.
Someone who is prowar favors a particular military engagement or military solutions generally.
Also spelled pro-war.
Favoring aggressive action
- militaristAdvocate for armed strength
- interventionistAdvocate for outside involvement
- bellicoseInclined toward aggression
- jingoisticExcessively nationalistic, pro-war
nationalist · neoconservative · expansionist · imperialist · saber-rattling · military buildup · armament · mobilization
Devoted to homeland
- rallyingAssembling for unified action
- recruitmentSeeking new personnel
- enlistmentVoluntary entry into service
- moraleGroup emotional well-being
homefront · victory gardens · national unity · sacrifice · duty · honor · glory · heroism
Zealous effort for change
- manifest destinyObvious, inescapable fate
- expansionismPolicy of territorial growth
- colonialismDomination through foreign settlement
- annexationAbsorbing territory into jurisdiction
preemptive strike · regime change · liberation · casus belli · weapons of mass destruction · coalition of the willing
hawkish
Favoring aggressive action
- militaristAdvocate for armed strength
- interventionistAdvocate for outside involvement
- bellicoseInclined toward aggression
jingoistic · nationalist · neoconservative · expansionist · imperialist · saber-rattling · military buildup · armament · mobilization · conscription
patriotic
Devoted to homeland
- rallyingAssembling for unified action
- recruitmentSeeking new personnel
- enlistmentVoluntary entry into service
morale · homefront · victory gardens · national unity · sacrifice · duty · honor · glory · heroism · valor
crusade
Zealous effort for change
- manifest destinyObvious, inescapable fate
- expansionismPolicy of territorial growth
- colonialismDomination through foreign settlement
annexation · preemptive strike · regime change · liberation · casus belli · weapons of mass destruction · coalition of the willing
prowarantiwar
Opposed to armed conflict
pacifist · dovish · nonviolent · antimilitarist · pacifistic
war, warfare, antiwar, wartime, warmonger, postwar, prewar, warmongering