The phrase "a wave of war" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a sudden increase or escalation in conflict or warfare, often implying a widespread or overwhelming nature.
Example: "The region was engulfed by a wave of war, leading to mass displacement and humanitarian crises."
Alternatives: "surge of conflict" or "onslaught of war".
In Hollywood, green lights will now greet a wave of war movies, the film business waking up to a vast new audience.
In eight weeks, riding a wave of war hysteria, this K.G.B. apparatchik is likely to be elected president -- to take his patient, Russia, to the cooler of repression and autocratic rule.
The entry into force of the deal ensures that Barack Obama, elected president in 2008 on a wave of anti-war sentiment, will pass off both the Afghanistan war and his new war in Iraq and Syria to his successor.
With his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, looking on from the gallery overhead, Mr. Kerry, 69, spoke on the chamber floor for 50 minutes about his career, which began on a wave of anti-war activism and included a failed 2004 presidential run against President George W. Bush.
Perhaps because Buddhism came to the west on a wave of post-war hippy soul-searching, and was then co-opted as friendly religion of choice by new ageism and the self-help movement, its radical economic and social messages have been lost under an avalanche of laughing fat-man statues, healing crystals and copies of The Secret.
It was almost forgotten until 1953, when a wave of post-war nationalism led historians to turn their attention to the ancient capital, and the process of restoration began.
Tamils largely boycotted the 2005 presidential poll and voted in small numbers in 2010, when Rajapaksa rode a wave of post-war support to a landslide victory.
The Congo's comparative prosperity during the conflict led to a wave of post-war immigration from Belgium, bringing the white population to 100,000 by 1950, as well as a period of industrialisation that continued throughout the 1950s.
A final wave of war cemetery memorials were completed in the 1930s under the Fascist governments of Germany and Italy.
That tide is bringing a wave of films about a war that most Americans wish would go away.
Like other European countries facing a wave of migration spawned by war and the sheer impossibility of many countries to offer hope of an existence above poverty, Britain is struggling to find a way to fulfill its international obligations to genuine refugees while mollifying vocal domestic critics.
