War (disambiguation)

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War is a large-scale armed conflict and the term is used as a metaphor for non-military conflicts.

War or WAR may also refer to:

Places

War, West Virginia
War Creek, a stream in West Virginia
Warwickshire county in England, standard code

Music

Performers

War (band), an American 1970s funk band

Albums

War (Bolt Thrower album), 2010
War (Born from Pain album), 2006
War (Demon Hunter album), 2019
War (U2 album), 1983
War (War album), by the American band
War (2019 soundtrack), soundtrack for the 2019 Indian film by Vishal–Shekhar, Sanchit Balhara and Ankit Balhara
The War (album), a 2017 album by South Korean-Chinese boy group EXO
W.A.R. (We Are Renegades), by American hip hop artist Pharoahe Monch

Songs

"The War" (Angels & Airwaves song)
"War" (Bob Marley song), 1976
"War" (Bone Thugs-n-Harmony song), 1998
"War" (Drake song), 2019
"War" (Henry Cow song), 1975
"War" (King Von song), 2022
"The War" (The New Power Generation song)
"War" (Pop Smoke song), featuring Lil Tjay, 2019
"War" (The Temptations song), 1970, also covered by Edwin Starr
"The War Song", by Culture Club
"War", by Amorphis from Halo
"War", by ArrDee and Aitch, 2022
"War", by Bathory from Bathory
"War", by Burzum from Burzum
"War", by The Devil Wears Prada from 8:18
"War", by Devin Townsend from Infinity
"WAR!", by DragonForce from Reaching into Infinity
"War", by Good Charlotte from Youth Authority
"War", by Idles from Ultra Mono
"War", by James Horner from Avatar: Music from the Motion Picture
"War", by Jay Sean from All or Nothing
"War", by Joe Satriani from The Extremist
"The War", a 2020 song by Joyner Lucas from the album ADHD
"War", by Judas Priest from Nostradamus
"The War", a 2016 song by Leeland from the album Invisible
"War", by Linkin Park from The Hunting Party
"War", by Meshuggah from Rare Trax
"War", by OutKast from Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
"War", by Persuader from The Fiction Maze
"War", by Poets of the Fall from Twilight Theater
"War", by Sean Kingston from Tomorrow
"War", by Shadows Fall from Retribution (uses same lyrics as Bob Marley's song "War")
"War?", by System of a Down from System of a Down
"War", by Goo Goo Dolls from Chaos in Bloom
"War", by Venom Inc., 2017
"War", by War of Ages from Dominion
"War", by Wumpscut from Embryodead
"War!", by Zach Callison from A Picture Perfect Hollywood Heartbreak
"Street Fighter (War)", by Sick Puppies from Tri-Polar; used in commercials for the game Street Fighter IV

Computing

Write after read, a data dependency hazard
WAR (file format) (Web application ARchive), a file format used to package Java applications
early versions of Decwar, a pioneering multi-user computer game
War dialing, the act of detecting online, modem-accessible systems by having a computer dial a set of numbers
Wardriving, the act of detecting wireless networking systems detecting by driving around with a Wi-Fi-equipped device
Warchalking, notices drawn to alert people to the presence of Wi-Fi networks

Organizations

White Aryan Resistance, an Indiana neo-Nazi white supremacist organization
Wyatt Archaeological Research, an organization founded by amateur archaeologist Ron Wyatt
Voina (meaning "War" in Russian), a Moscow-based performance artist collective
Women Against Registry, a sex offender law reform organization
De WAR, a Dutch centre for arts and citizen science in Amersfoort

Wrestling

WAR (wrestling promotion), a Japanese professional wrestling promotion known as Wrestle Association R
Wrestling Academy Rorbas, a Swiss professional wrestling promotion
W.A.R. Wrestling, an American independent wrestling promotion

Games

War (card game), a two player card game typically using Anglo-American playing card deck
a Brazilian variation of the board game Risk
WARS Trading Card Game by Decipher
Wars (series), a Nintendo video game series
Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, a 2008 MMO video game
W.A.R., a 1986 video game

Film

War film, a genre of film

Films

The Wars, a 1983 Canadian historical drama film based on the 1977 novel by Timothy Findley
The War (1994 film), a 1994 film starring Elijah Wood and Kevin Costner
War (2002 film), a 2002 Russian film about the Second Chechen War
War (2007 film), a 2007 Jet Li and Jason Statham film
War, Inc., a 2008 American political satire film
War (2014 film), a 2014 Swiss film
War (2019 film), an Indian action thriller film directed by Siddharth Anand, part of the YRF Spy Universe

Television

Episodes

"War" 21 Thunder episode 6 (2017)
"War", Æon Flux season 2, episode 5 (1992)
"War", Amazon episode 10 (1999)
"War", Between season 1, episode 6 (2015)
"War", Charles in Charge season 1, episode 4 (1984)
"War", Da Ali G Show season 2, episode 2 (2003)
"War", Dark Ages episode 3 (1999)
"War" Desire episode 27 (2006)
"War!", Diplomatic Immunity episode 5 (2009)
"War", Fubar Age of Computer episode 6 (2017)
"War", Garo: Gold Storm Sho episode 16 (2015)
"War", Garo: Yami o Terasu Mono episode 18 (2013)
"War", Hap and Leonard season 1, episode 5 (2016)
"War", Heartburn Hotel series 1, episode 4 (1998)
"War", Hey Dude season 5, episode 13 (1991)
"War", La Femme Nikita season 1, episode 17 (1997)
"War", Lights Out (2011) episode 13 (2011)
"War", Mary & George episode 7 (2024)
"War", Max Headroom season 1, episode 5 (1987)
"War", Not Going Out series 11, episode 5 (2021)
"War", Once Upon a Time in Iraq episode 1 (2020)
"War", Prisoners of Gravity season 3, episode 6 (1991)
"War", Private Practice season 3, episode 21 (2010)
"War", Special Squad episode 16 (1984)
"War", Squid Game: The Challenge episode 3 (2023)
"War", Suits season 2, episode 16 (2013)
"War", Super Pumped episode 3 (2022)
"War", The Comic Strip Presents... series 1, episode 2 (1983)
"War", The Crown season 4, episode 10 (2020)
"War", The Last Czars episode 4 (2019)
"War", Unreal season 1, episode 1 (2016)
"War", You Can't Do That on Television season 5, episode 24 (1985)
"War", Young Justice season 2, episode 15 (2013)
"The War", A Dance to the Music of Time episode 3 (1997)
"The War", Alien Encounters season 3, episode 5 (2014)
"The War", Boy Meets World season 7, episode 15 (2000)
"The War", Crime Story season 1, episode 6 (1986)
"The War", Fright Krewe season 1, episode 10 (2023)
"The War", Ideal season 4, episode 5 (2008)
"The War", Koose Munisamy Veerappan episode 3 (2023)
"The War", Tales of Zestiria the X season 1, episode 11 (2016)

Shows

War (miniseries), a 1983 Canadian television miniseries
The War (miniseries), a 2007 television documentary about World War II by Ken Burns
The Chaser's War on Everything or simply The War, an Australian television comedy series

Literature

Fiction

War (Guerre), a 1934 novel by Louis Ferdinand Céline
War (La Guerre), a 1970 novel by J. M. G. Le Clézio
War, a 1994 play by Dennis Foon
War (novel), a 1996 novel by Simon Hawke; the third installment in the Birthright series
War, a 1999 novel by Peter Lerangis; the fourth installment in the Watchers series
Aliens vs. Predator: War, a 1999 novel based on Alien vs. Predator by S. D. Perry; the third installment in The Machiko Noguchi Saga
War, a 2003 collection of poems by Harold Pinter
War: Stories of Conflict, a 2005 short story anthology edited by Michael Morpurgo
Sparrowhawk Six: War, a 2006 novel by Edward Cline; the sixth installment in the Sparrowhawk series
War: Tales of Conflict and Strife, a 2017 short story collection by Roald Dahl
War: A Novel of the House War, a 2019 novel by Michelle West; the eighth installment in The House War series
The War, a 1983 novel by Michael McDowell; the fourth installment in the Blackwater series
The Wars, a 1977 novel by Timothy Findley

Non-fiction

War — What For?, a 1910 book by George Ross Kirkpatrick
War, the Creator, a 1915 magazine essay and 1916 book by Gelett Burgess
War: Its Conduct and Legal Results, a 1915 book by T. Baty and J. H. Morgan
War, This War and the Sermon on the Mount, a 1915 book by Burnett Hillman Streeter concerning World War I
War: Its Nature, Cause and Cure, a 1923 book by G. Lowes Dickinson
War: Its Causes, Consequences and Cure, a 1923 book by Kirby Page
War (Junger book), a 2010 book by Sebastian Junger about Afghanistan
War (Woodward book), a 2024 book by Bob Woodward
The War: Speech of Hon. E.C. Benedict, in the Assembly of the State of New York, April 6, 1864, an 1864 work by Erastus C. Benedict
The War: What Should Be Said About It in the Schools?, a 1914 book by Fannie Fern Andrews
The War: A Memoir (La Douleur), a 1985 memoir by Marguerite Duras
War, Literature & the Arts, an American military literary magazine in publication since 1989

Comics

War comics, a genre of comics
War (Marvel Comics), several Marvel Comics characters
War, a 1975–1984 ongoing series published by Charlton Comics
The War (comics), a 1989 Marvel Comics limited series

Visual arts

War (Böcklin painting), two 1896 oil paintings by Arnold Böcklin
The War (Dix engravings), a 1924 series of etchings by Otto Dix
The War (Dix triptych), a 1932 oil painting by Otto Dix
War (Rego painting), a 2003 pastel on paper by Paula Rego

Other uses

The War (boxing), a 1985 bout between Marvin Hagler and Thomas Hearns
War language, spoken in the Indian subcontinent
Waray language in the Philippines
Winchester Automatic Rifle
Wins Above Replacement, a sabermetric baseball statistic
War, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
War, a legendary character from the myth of founding of the city of Warsaw; see Wars and Sawa