"scale of war" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe the intensity of a conflict or battle. For example, "The scale of war in the region has increased significantly in recent weeks."
Though the death and destruction these acts caused were on the scale of war, the acts themselves were acts of terrorism, albeit on a wholly unprecedented level.
"My major problem is that I have no faith in the current leadership, which must lead us in an event on the scale of war with Iran or a regional war," he said.
It was the ascending scale of war that originally called forth the existence of the nation-state as an administrative unit capable of maintaining mass armies and the infrastructure – for taxation, weapons manufacture, transport, etc – that they require.
As a young gay novelist, he said, I had a duty to write an epic novel about the AIDS epidemic, a work on the scale of "War and Peace".
"By coming here to the City of Ypres and seeing the names of the 54,896 British and Commonwealth soldiers on the Menin Gate, many of them footballers, they can appreciate the scale of war.
In essence, Senator Clinton's position is that a President can go "forum-shopping" to find a willing authority to justify taking the nation to war, and she did not distinguish the scale of wars in Bosnia and Kosovo and Iraq.
"When we do use force, it must be effective, and our objectives must be well defined, so that one deployment doesn't lead to endless others – always with the heavy thumb of American power, resources and resolve on the scales of war".
Professor Schmidt's research has also revealed the vast scale of Cold War chemical warfare tests carried out on 'volunteer' British service personnel here in the UK – involving numbers of people much greater than previously thought.
Not just a giveaway sentence or two in favor of it, but a full scale declaration of war against bosses who illegally fire their workers for expressing their democratic right to join a union.
Eric B. Lipps, New York A war gone bad The futility of the massive scale of the war in Afghanistan and military campaign in Pakistan is indicated by the U.S. report of Qaeda leaders apparently moving from their refuge in the Pakistani tribal areas to safe havens in Somalia and Yemen ("U.S. sees new turf for Qaeda fighters," June 12).
NO ONE doubts the scale of the war in Congo.
