On the other hand, if Seldon wishes the reverse, he can predict civil war and ruin.

Some of his friends at the State Department had been predicting civil war since it was first announced the ruling party was dissolved.

The troops were not trained for a counterinsurgency, because Bush hawks ignored the intelligence reports that predicted an insurgency and civil war.

By 1987, Beijing's reaction was similar to that in 1962 and this prompted many Western diplomats to predict war.

"Are you predicting universal war and anarchy if the Empire fails?"

To their surprise, they found that what best predicted war was not a nation's history, ethnic makeup, military spending, level of repression or inequality.

He went on to predict war in the region if the Palestinian problem was not solved.

Mitchell came back with a 324-page report that predicted future war with Japan, including the attack on Pearl Harbor.

No one is predicting war, but Taiwan poses a permanent and unpredictable potential crisis.

Manson had been predicting racial war for some time before he used the term Helter Skelter.