[22][23][24] The Six-Day War, which began when Israel launched a successful attack on Egypt on June 5, 1967, has been widely described as a preemptive war[25][26][27][28] and is, according to the United States State Department, "perhaps the most cited example [of preemption]".[29] Others have alternatively referred to it as a preventive war.[30] Some have referred to the war as an act of "interceptive self-defense."[31] According to that view, no single Egyptian step may have qualified as an armed attack, but Egypt’s collective actions made clear that she was bent on armed attack against Israel.