"calamities of war" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is used to refer to the various disasters and misfortunes that accompany war. For example, "The calamities of war, including injury, loss of life, and displacement, can have long-lasting effects on those affected."
Having made war on the Government, they were subject to the incidents and calamities of war".
Confederate Secretary of War James Seddon fulminated that these articles were intended "to subvert by violence the social system and domestic relations of the negro slaves in the Confederacy and to add to the calamities of war a servile insurrection".
Thus was inaugurated the New Economic Policy (NEP), which Lenin expected to last for an indeterminate period; during this time the country would recover from the calamities of War Communism and the population would acquire a higher economic culture.
Mr. Stone pays as much attention to Operation Barbarossa as Pearl Harbor, and shows archival material not just from Normandy and Iwo Jima but also the Battle of Stalingrad, the German invasion of Ukraine and other calamities of war.
In another chapter in "The Quotable Abigail Adams," called "War," Abigail reminds us that it is sometimes better to "suffer temporary privations, than the calamities of War, which when once commenced, no one can calculate or estimate".
He is the only British monarch (for virutally the PRINCE REGENT was a monarch), during whose whole reign the nation has been preserved from suffering by the crimes and calamities of war.
The Premier succeeded in breaking down the opposition by a passionate appeal to the Members, in which he warned them that they would be held responsible for the calamity of war with Mongolia, supported by Russia, if the conclusion of the agreement were refused.
Perhaps it was almost as if post-war Europe was telling itself that the ideal of European union was in some subconscious sense what they had yearned for all along, even before the calamity of war, and it was this yearning — so poignantly decent and honourable — which made Germany's victims and even Germany itself tragically susceptible to the hateful choices of invasion and collaboration.
The calamities of World War II only deepened his funk.
While King's pacifism and denunciations of militarism sprang from his Christian faith, he understood the calamity and waste of war in a way that transcended faith and ideology.
I marvelled at its scope, audacity and five-part structure – which shifts in tone from Pedro Almodóvar-like comedy to film noir to frenetic hyper-realism, finishing with an extraordinary "fairytale" section that takes readers on a tour of the 20th century, particularly focusing on the calamities of second world war and the Holocaust.
