That would have been perfectly legal during the present state of war.

"We don't want to see us return to a state of war."

But I would not see them as having been built because there was a state of war.

But a state of war has exist for that to happen.

As a result, the whole planet is in a state of global war.

The two governments continued in a state of war until 1979.

Usually, but not always, the countries are in a state of declared war.

The two groups were in a more or less permanent state of war.

The two countries have been in a state of war three times.

But that state of war was useful in other ways, as well.