The phrase "assume war" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to suggest taking on a mindset or perspective related to war, but without additional context, it is ambiguous.
Example: "In order to understand the conflict better, we must assume war as a necessary condition for analysis."
Alternatives: "consider war" or "take on war".
The federal government is the only purposeful force — I assume wars are not purposeful — that can reduce the numbers of the poor and make their lives more bearable.
Once returned to power, he has promised to reassert Congolese sovereignty, a line his father used to justify dispensing with conditional foreign-aid programmes.A more pressing challenge for Mr Kabila, assuming war is averted in Kinshasa, is to accommodate Mr Bemba, who is now as legitimate an opposition leader as Mr Kabila is a president.
The first and biggest problem with deterrence by punishment is that it assumes war is going to happen.
The doctrine does not assume that war is per se evil; and if it doesn't believe war can ever be intrinsically good, it foresees that, in the right circumstances and subject to the right conditions, war can be a necessary and sometimes the only means of preventing evil.
"This situation of being in between has brought in war here in Mexico, that we are, that I don't understand why did we assume this war.
But the eagerness of many networks in the past weeks to assume a war posture has sparked soul-searching among some Indian journalists over the direction of the country's fast-growing, but still relatively young TV market.
On the outbreak of war in 1914 he assumed his war appointment as commander of the 1st Army on the extreme right flank of the German force that would penetrate into northern France.
We probably shouldn't assume that wars go better in secret than they do in the open, should we?
"But it was assumed that war was men's business.
Most experts assumed that War Admiral would outrun Seabiscuit, as he had done to his other opponents.
