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Someone believing the propaganda is as much a reason as someone writing it, or someone ordering that it be written, or someone inventing the casus belli behind it.

The cheapest way to move water is therefore to foment an armed rebellion with water rights as the casus belli.

This isn't going to serve as casus belli for a war with North Korea.

Saddam invaded two of his neighbors in ten years with no reasonable casus belli.

One casus belli does not preclude others, and it is better that a state have more than one reason to go to war.

The two most important aspects in war are casus belli and plausible deniability.

But Iraq's explusion of the weapons inspectors was a completely valid Casus belli.

It would be a huge causus belli, more or less a second 9/11.

By removing this casus belli peace with Israel is much more likely.

Now if the Followers of the Great Pumpkin had a political agenda against other segments of the worlds' population, that would be a casus belli.

A drone, however, is both inaccessible to demonstrators and, even if somehow damaged, doesn't really provide a casus belli for strategic retaliatory violence.

There is now ample evidence showing that WMD claims were simply a casus belli for a war that had been desired for some time for other reasons.

"The new United States military strategy makes explicit that a cyberattack is casus belli just as a traditional act of war."

If this is an act of war then most of the NSA revelations would mean that the rest of the world has eons of Casus Belli's against USA.