Etymology

coalition of the willing

Today it means: A group of countries whose leaders have been persuaded by another to take up a specific task, usually in the context of an invasion or war. Full definition →

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The story

Coined in the early 1970s by MIT professor Lincoln P. Bloomfield and colleagues.

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