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The phrase "a rationale for war" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the justification or reasoning behind engaging in military conflict.
Example: "The government presented a rationale for war, citing national security concerns and the need to protect its citizens."
Alternatives: "justification for war" or "reasoning behind the war".
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Clausewitz may be able to provide a rationale for war today, but the nature of war itself has changed profoundly since he wrote.
Separate from the question of Mr. Libi's account, an internal C.I.A. review of its prewar intelligence on Iraq is still under way, continuing a push to evaluate the information used as a rationale for war.
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A shifting rationale for war against Iraq does not reflect a coherent global strategy.
The new C.I.A. assessment, based largely on information gathered after the American-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003, is the latest to revise a prewar intelligence report used by the administration as a central rationale for war.
Almost always, the report said, did it make too much out of too little -- transforming what should have been cast as many shades of gray into the black-and-white assertions used by the Bush administration as a rationale for going to war.
This was a primary source for what Colin Powell told the United Nations, and what President Bush used as a rationale for going to war.
Nevertheless, all the great despots of the past have seized upon a single happening or mistake to create a rationale for going to war and Mr. Lamborn has acted in that tradition.
An ecosystem supporting disdain, exclusion, isolation, discrimination, humiliation, latitude for making humans the butt of cruel jokes, banishment, and bullying in the extreme provides a rationale for terrorism and eventually, war.
Wilk called Bush "a fucking scam" in an interview, criticizing the Bush administration's rationale for war in Iraq.
That may be true, but it fails to answer the question that France, Germany and other members of the Security Council have posed: What is the urgent rationale for war now if there is a chance that continued inspections under military pressure might accomplish the disarmament of Iraq peacefully?
The guest of honor at the party in Arlington is Joe Wilson, a career diplomat whose criticism of the Bush administration's rationale for war in Iraq led to the unmasking of his wife, Valerie Plame, as a CIA officer and, ultimately, to perjury charges against I. Lewis Scooter Libbyby, Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff.
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