War (disambiguation) explained

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
• 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
• "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
• "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

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
• , a 2008 MMO video game
• W.A.R., a 1986 video game

Film

• War film, a genre of film

Films

• 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

• 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

• War comics, a genre of comics
• War (Marvel Comics), several Marvel Comics characters
• 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

See also

• • • • Civil War (disambiguation)
• Cold War (disambiguation)
• Great War (disambiguation)
• World War (disambiguation)