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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 edit

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

Music edit

Performers edit

War (band), an American 1970s funk band

Albums edit

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
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 edit

"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 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 Venom Inc., 2017
"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 edit

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 edit

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

Wrestling edit

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 edit

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 and television edit

War film, a genre of film
War (miniseries), a 1983 Canadian television miniseries
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" (Da Ali G Show), a 2003 episode
War (2007 film), a 2007 Jet Li and Jason Statham film
The War (miniseries), a 2007 television documentary about World War II by Ken Burns
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
The Chaser's War on Everything or simply The War, an Australian television comedy series

Literature edit

War (Junger book), a 2010 book by Sebastian Junger about Afghanistan
War (novel), a 1996 novel by Simon Hawke
War, Literature & the Arts, an American military literary magazine

Comics edit

War comics, a genre of comics
War (Marvel Comics), several Marvel Comics characters
The War (comics), a 1989 Marvel Comics limited series

Visual arts edit

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 edit

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