War (disambiguation)

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

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 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 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
 * Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, a 2008 MMO video game
 * W.A.R., a 1986 video game

Film and television

 * 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

 * 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