The phrase "a war to keep" is not correct and lacks clarity in written English.
It may be intended to convey a struggle or effort to maintain something, but it requires additional context to be meaningful.
Example: "The community engaged in a war to keep their traditions alive amidst modernization."
Alternatives: "a battle to preserve" or "a fight to maintain".
Saddam Hussein needs to remain in his box -- but we don't need a war to keep him there.
It is a war to keep Hamid Karzai in power – even though he announced last week: "I swear I am going to join the Taliban".
But there are limits to self-reinvention, and Milosevic is the sort of leader — the sort of dictator — who needs a war to keep his people distracted... Since the NATO bombing began, Milosevic has been making monkeys of his big-power assailants.
"As a Muslim I know I have the God-given right to protest against unjust rulers," a detained journalist insists, while a woman bemoans the conflict over a breakaway Bangladesh, a war to "keep a country they've never seen, for the glory of a nation split at birth".
"A war to keep the peace," Variable, the filmmakers behind ROCKET WARS, a new documentary on the so-called Rouketopolemos, call it. .
In the 1920s and1930s, some newspapers declined to run listings of radio programs without charge and kept radio stations from subscribing to news services, all tactics in a war to keep radio from growing.
One is "Army," which defines new doctrine for the employment of land power; the other is "Operations," which details how to win a major war, to keep the peace in a troubled land, to fight terrorists in cities and to support the authorities in a domestic civil crisis.
Anotheri is currently on view in piecedas Artes, São Paulo, as part of the exhibition Assim É Se Lhe Parecalledich seeks to relate art to contemPlanrY issues.
They feel it is better to let the new mill get its share than to start a price war to keep it out.
Sharon and his cronies are fighting a colonial war to keep their pet settlement project in place, to perpetuate the Israeli occupation and the subjugation of the Palestinian territories.
American Express AXPP) has lagged its peers recently because its disciplined management team declined to enter a bidding war to keep its co-branding deals with Costco and Fidelity Investments.
