A 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

• "War", an EP by rapper Jasiah

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

• “War” by Chief Keef from Back From The Dead 2, 2014

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

• 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 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 (), a 1934 novel by Louis Ferdinand Céline

• War (Le Clézio novel), a 1970 novel by J. M. G. Le Clézio

• War, a 1994 play by Dennis Foon

• War (Hawke 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

• War (short story), a short story by Luigi Pirandello

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 (), 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

Periodicals

• WAR (newspaper), a neo-Nazi newspaper

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

See also

• Wars (disambiguation)

• Warr (disambiguation)

• Civil War (disambiguation)

• Cold War (disambiguation)

• Great War (disambiguation)

• World War (disambiguation)