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
• West Antarctic Rift
• Warwickshire county in England, standard code

Music

Performers

• War (band), an American 1970s funk band
• War (Swedish band), a black metal band also known as Total War

Albums

• War (Bolt Thrower album)
• War (Born from Pain album)
• War (U2 album)
• War (War album), by the American band
• W.A.R. (We Are Renegades), by American hip hop artist Pharoahe Monch

Songs

• "War" (Bob Marley song)
• "War" (Bone Thugs-n-Harmony song)
• "War" (Edwin Starr song)
• "War?", a song from the album System of a Down by the band of the same name
• "War", by Bathory from Bathory
• "War", by Burzum from Burzum
• "War", by Devin Townsend from Infinity
• "War", by Good Charlotte from Greatest Remixes
• "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
• "War", by Judas Priest from Nostradamus
• "War", by Linkin Park from The Hunting Party
• "War", by Meshuggah from Rare Trax
• "War", by OutKast from Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
• "War", by Poets of the Fall from Twilight Theater
• "War", by Sean Kingston from Tomorrow
• "War", by Wumpscut from Embryodead
• "The War Song", by The Culture Club
• "Street Fighter (War)", by Sick Puppies from Tri-Polar; used in commercials for the game Street Fighter IV

Computing

• Write after read, a data 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
• W.A.R., a 1986 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
• WAR (wrestling promotion), a Japanese professional wrestling promotion
• Voina (meaning "War" in Russian), a Moscow-based performance artist collective
• Women Against Registry, sex offender law reform organization

Comics

• war comics, the genre of comics
• War (TMNT), a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles character
• War (Marvel Comics), about the Marvel Comics characters
• The War (comics), a 1989 Marvel Comics limited series set in that company's New Universe

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
• War, the protagonist of the video game, Darksiders
• War (computer game), a 1979 Apple II video game

Film and television

• War film, a genre of film of which the central plot focuses on a large-scale armed conflict
• War (miniseries), a 1983 Canadian television miniseries
• 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 movie
• War, Inc., a 2008 American political satire film
• War (2014 film), a 2014 Swiss film

Others

• War (painting), painting by Paula Rego
• War language (also spelled Waar), spoken in the Indian subcontinent
• ISO 639-2 and ISO 639-3 code for the Waray-Waray language
• One of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
• War, a 2010 book by Sebastian Junger about Afghanistan
• War, Literature & the Arts, an American military literary magazine
• Wins above replacement, a sabermetric baseball statistic
• War, a 1996 novel by Simon Hawke

See also

• The War (disambiguation)
• War Stories (disambiguation)
• War novel, genre of novel
• War comic, genre of comics