A preventive military strike: the right or the extreme urgency
The article deals with the problem of preventive self-defense through preemptive and anticipating military strikes. The right of States to preemptive actions for selfdefense in various forms is permissible under Art. 51 of the UN Charter. However, the United States and its direct allies are imposing a broad interpretation of this provision on the world community. In the authors' opinion, the UN Security Council should act ahead of time, and those states that are afraid of remote military threats are obliged to bring the available information to the Security Council, and then strictly follow its instructions. Otherwise, mankind will return to the right of war, which had prevailed before the United Nations Charter was adopted on the results of two world wars and outlawed the right to war.