The speed with which electronic attacks could be launched gives little time for cool-headed reflection and favours early, even preemptive, attack.

电子战发动很快，且偏好先发制人的攻击方式，几乎没有时间留给你冷静应对。

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Once such powers of IW are unleashed in a preemptive attack, the ability to control and calibrate forces becomes extremely difficult.

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The ships are movable and thus less subject to preemptive attack.

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For example, if a preemptive attack on the German war machine had succeeded in preventing World War II, we would never know the enormity of the evil it prevented.

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