"heading for war" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you're talking about an impending conflict. For example, "With rising tensions between the two countries, it seems like they're heading for war."
Senator Fulbright thinks we're heading for war with China & hopes that experts--mostly from universities --now appearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Comm.
It also took on some of the riskier aspects of commerce: remote oil rigs, cargo ships heading for war zones and rockets launched into space.
It was clear in the summer of 2002 that Tony Blair's government was probably heading for war again: after Kosovo and Afghanistan, Iraq.
As for force-protection targets, the Pakistanis ask why the American military can't just track hostile trucks that might be heading for war in Afghanistan until they cross the border — and then strike them on Afghan soil.
By Richard H. Rovere The New Yorker, March 19 , 1966P. 167 Senator Fulbright thinks we're heading for war with China & hopes that experts--mostly from universities --now appearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Comm.
The New Yorker, March 19 , 1966P. 167 Senator Fulbright thinks we're heading for war with China & hopes that experts--mostly from universities --now appearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Comm.
The words were written in 1840, when the Germans and French were headed for war.
The larger point is that the American public was gradually, inevitably headed for war with Spain.
Many residents seemed resigned that the nation was headed for war.
The uncertainty about levels of infiltration has translated into an uncertainty about whether India and Pakistan are headed for war or peace.
LESS than a year after South Sudan declared its independence, it appears headed for war once again with its northern neighbor, Sudan.
