"proclaim war" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in formal, historical, or political writing to refer to a formal declaration of war. For example, "On August 4th, 1914, Germany proclaimed war on Russia."
The proclaimed war hero is a coward.
But banner headlines in many publications proclaimed war.
The 1912 Basel Conference declared the proletariat "the herald of world peace" and proclaimed "war on war".
In addition, in Lebanon, Israel proclaimed war goals that it couldn't achieve — such as retrieving its two kidnapped soldiers and disarming Hezbollah.
A22 NEW YORK/REGION B1-6 Return of X-Rated STheesextirshopmmunity Outrage The sex shop business is growing in Greenwich Village almost a decade after Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani proclaimed war on the industry, which has found ways to dodge nearly every regulation imposed on it.
If we may turn for a moment from the current season marking the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus to that commemorating his birth, when was the last time you saw a Christmas card that proclaims: "War on Earth"?
There is danger in the rhetoric that proclaims wars as just or necessary, the human sacrifice as made in a noble cause, without any honest argument to show that it is so.
Democratic Party leaders at one time or another have summoned the political courage to proclaim World War II a war of aggression on the part of Japan and to refuse to join the parade of neo-nationalist politicians to the Yasukuni Shrine, a symbol of Japan's wartime past.
"It was hubris to go on Fox News and proclaim the war would be a cakewalk," one former aide to the first President Bush said.
In his own words, he was determined not to "micro-manage the military" or "repeat the problems of the Vietnam war, where the political leadership meddled with military operations".In reality, there is no clear dividing line between the job of politicians who proclaim a war's aims and the soldiers who work out how to achieve them.
