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 * ''

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'', by American hip hop artist Pharoahe Monch

Songs

* "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 * "War" (Pop Smoke song), featuring Lil Tjay, 2019 * "War" (The Temptations song), 1970, also covered by Edwin Starr * "War?", by System of a Down from '' System of a Down'' * "War", by

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and Aitch, 2022 * "War", by Bathory from '' Bathory'' * "War", by Burzum from ''

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'' * "War", by Devin Townsend from ''

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'' * "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 ''

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'' * "War", by Joe Satriani from ''

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'' * "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 Persuader from ''

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'' * "War", by Poets of the Fall from '' Twilight Theater'' * "War", by Sean Kingston from ''

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'' * "War", by Shadows Fall from ''Retribution'' (uses same lyrics as Bob Marley's song "War") * "War", by Wumpscut from '' Embryodead'' * "War!", by Zach Callison from ''A Picture Perfect Hollywood Heartbreak'' * "

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", by Culture Club * "Street Fighter (War)", by Sick Puppies from ''

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''; used in commercials for the game ''Street Fighter IV''

Computing

* Write after read, a data dependency

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* 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

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* 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 *

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, an American independent wrestling promotion

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'' * ''

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'' 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 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 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

Others

* ''War'' (painting), painting by Paula Rego * War language (also spelled Waar), spoken in the Indian subcontinent * War (also known as Wars), legendary character from the myth of founding of the city of Warsaw * ISO 639-2 and ISO 639-3 code for the Waray language in the Philippines * One of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse * 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 * Wins Above Replacement, a sabermetric baseball statistic * W.A.R., the Winchester Automatic Rifle, see Winchester model 30 * Rivalry and competition between companies offering a certain service or product, such as: ** console wars ** browser wars **

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