'instigate war' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when talking about someone or something deliberately causing or starting a war. For example: The leader of the nation had been accused of instigating war with their neighboring country.
The immediate risk is to national security: Will Trump provoke or instigate war with North Korea, or dangerously mishandle some other international crisis?
If you work in tech, you've heard about artificial intelligence: how it's going to replace us, whether it's over-hyped or not and which nations will leverage it to prevent, or instigate, war.
That though we will not abide injustice we will not instigate war".
Erdogan's speech was meant for one reason, according to Aktas: to instigate war with the Kurds and foster chaos for his own benefit.
Tribal loyalties and deep but misguided faith in religious leaders who instigate wars against the infidels, compounded with an authoritarian ruler thriving on corruption, cruelty and divide-and-rule policy, all point to Yemen as another Afghanistan in the making.
Human desires, especially for the Earth's diminishing supply of resources, will still instigate wars for some time to come, but neither human courage nor human bloodlust will carry the day on the battlefield.
The tried-and-true scheme of militarism, "external threats or enemies," to instigate wars and international tensions continues to this day.
Mr. Vishinsky has complained that the Western world is instigating war.
Many in the West believe that the Soviet is instigating war.
In June former Liberian president Charles Taylor went on trial in The Hague for having instigated war crimes in Sierra Leone.
But can this potion be used for advancing peace rather than instigating war?
