'war preparedness' is a correct and usable term in written English.
You can use it to refer to the state of readiness in the case of a war. For example: Given the current political tensions, it is important that countries adequately prepare for war through improved war preparedness.
It bound together a cherished national narrative about the Second World War — Britain is the last defense against totalitarianism — with panic-induced Cold War preparedness.
Senator Harry S. Truman won a place on the Democratic ticket as vice president, propelled forward through his investigation of the nation's war preparedness in World War II.
Mr. Pittman was appointed the nation's first civil defense chief for nuclear war preparedness at the height of the 1961 Berlin crisis, when words like fallout, megaton and radioactivity became alarmingly familiar to every American schoolchild.
1938 French and U.K. 'Preparedness' London — Co-ordination of the British and French air forces, a measure of "war preparedness" decided upon when the French Premier, Edouard Daladier, and his Foreign Minister, Georges Bonnet, visited London late in April and talked with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax, will be brought a step nearer realization next week.
1938 Britain To Speed Rearmament London — Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain informed a crowded and excited House of Commons tonight [March 14] that Great Britain would answer Herr Hitler's conquest of Austria by stepping-up the pace of the British war preparedness program, so that this country will be able in the near future to meet force with force.
"Washington isn't ready yet to take more than a few tentative steps toward a war preparedness program, despite stronger words against Russia.
Pursuing questions as varied as a pet's value in the years leading up to the war, how the idea of war-preparedness (or "doing things") goaded people into acting drastically (and often pointlessly), and how the event shaped thinking on animal rights, Kean achieves an unusual psychological portrait of a society in wartime.
His collegiate progression was a product of World War II-era military preparedness.
As Secretary of State Colin L. Powell arrived in Islamabad today on a mission to get India and Pakistan to talk about peace, India was still trumpeting its preparedness for war.
With the continuing widespread purge of the army, concerns have been growing in Turkey about the country's preparedness for war at a time when instability at its border with neighboring Syria has been intensifying.
The rejection of the Versailles treaty and the League of Nations after the First World War and then of preparedness on the eve of the Second are only the best known of the Senate's many acts of foreign-policy sabotage, which have continued down to the present, with its refusal to ratify international instruments on genocide, nuclear testing, and human rights.
