The phrase "agents of war" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to individuals, entities, or factors that contribute to or instigate conflict or warfare.
Example: "Throughout history, various nations have acted as agents of war, influencing global conflicts for their own interests."
Alternatives: "instigators of conflict" or "catalysts of warfare".
The ability to manipulate pathogens, toxins and chemicals as agents of war surely required modern knowledge of epidemiology, biology and chemistry.
Under the circumstances war becomes virtually self-instigating, and the delegates and ministers who make the charges are not so much instigator as agents of war.
And as the genetics revolution continues, developing new and more fearsome agents of war will become possible.Grim though it seems, this is not cause for despair.
The lead ballerina, Jennifer Kronenberg, with pink ribbons braided into her hair, moved through the piece not like an agent of war but like a symbol of sheer energy, a winged victory, but of a higher realm.
Christine Granville was one of the bravest, toughest and strangest secret agents of World War II.
Granville was one of Britain's most daring and highly decorated special agents of World War II.
Naturalised as a Briton under this name, her wartime exploits in occupied Poland, France and eastern Europe were to see her become one of the most famous female Allied special agents of the war.
They worked with the French Resistance and the Allies to recover missing or captured agents or prisoners of war.
The global biological threat environment is compounded by the possibility of rogue states and/or terrorists deliberately using biological agents as weapons of war.
"Spymistress", by William Stevenson, a Canada-based author of books about espionage, claims she was "the greatest female agent of World War II"; Mr Stevenson is described as "her close friend...an author she greatly admired...the only person she would trust to record her life".Vera Atkins, who died in 2000, is certainly a fascinating figure.
What is "collateral damage?" "The United States is the principal agent of the war on terrorism, but it's using proxies on the ground, and with very imperfect control of its proxies," said Michael Ignatieff, a professor of human rights practices at Harvard.
