The phrase "aim of war" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to discuss the objectives or goals that are pursued during a conflict or military engagement.
Example: "The aim of war is often debated among historians, with some arguing it is to achieve political objectives while others believe it is primarily about territorial expansion."
Alternatives: "objective of war" or "goal of war".
His point is that the aim of war has changed.
Galula's thesis is that one aim of war is to support the local population rather than control the territory.
When politics provokes the crisis -- when, for example, hunger is deliberately induced as an aim of war -- things get much murkier.
Clausewitz maintained that the main aim of war was to destroy the enemy's forces; in this case, American strategy is likely to be closer to that of Sun Tzu, an ancient Chinese theorist who argued that "those skilled in war subdue the enemy's army without battle.
The aim of war, Rawls says, is to bring all societies to honor the law of peoples, and eventually to become fully participating members of international society.
Too many times throughout history, the aim of war has been not just to defeat the enemy but to eradicate them and the fruits of their culture from the face of the earth.
While Americans have continued to support the aims of war there, worries are growing about progress, or lack of it.
"Oh, we'll have to find some general". This was certainly franker than the current American and British line that one of the aims of war with Iraq would be the establishment of democracy.
But healing and consensus building does not mean sucking up to someone that publicly boasts that he's in "a war" against gays, and that the aim of his war is to "cure" them.
If you ask what the aim of this war is, I will tell you: The aim of this war of terror, the aim of the terrorists, their aides and dispatchers, the aim of those who enable them to perpetrate their acts quietly without disturbance, is to expel us from here.
Rothbard endorsed Barnes's revisionism on World War II, favorably citing his view that "the murder of Germans and Japanese was the overriding aim of World War II".
