war hawk In politics, a war hawk, or simply hawk, is someone who favors war or continuing to escalate an existing conflict as opposed to other solutions. War hawks are the opposite of doves. The terms are derived by analogy with the birds of the same name ...

is a person who actively supports a war. War hawk, Warhawk or similar may also refer to:

Military

Curtiss P-40 Warhawk The Curtiss P-40 Warhawk is an American single-engined, single-seat, all-metal fighter and ground-attack aircraft that first flew in 1938. The P-40 design was a modification of the previous Curtiss P-36 Hawk which reduced development time an ...

, an American World War II-era fighter aircraft * 195th Fighter Squadron, a unit of the Arizona Air National Guard stationed in Tucson, Arizona *

314th Fighter Squadron The 314th Fighter Squadron is an active United States Air Force unit. It is assigned to the 54th Fighter Group at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, where it was activated on 6 July 2015. The squadron was first activated during World War I ...

, a training unit of the United States Air Force stationed in New Mexico * 480th Fighter Squadron, a unit of the United States Air Force stationed in Germany

Athletic teams in the United States

* Arrowhead High School, Merton Town, Wisconsin * Auburn Montgomery Warhawks, Auburn University at Montgomery, Alabama * Calhoun Community College, Tanner, Alabama *

Great Crossing High School Great Crossing High School is a public high school in Georgetown, Kentucky, United States that opened in August 2019. It is operated by Scott County Schools (SCS), which oversees all public K–12 education in Scott County, Kentucky. The school ...

, Georgetown, Kentucky *

James Madison High School (California) James Madison High School is a public high school in San Diego, California. It is part of the San Diego Unified School District. Madison's campus opened in 1962. Serving almost 1,100 students in grades 9–12, it is located in the Clairemont Me ...

James Madison High School (Fairfax County, Virginia) James Madison High School (JMHS) is a public high school in Vienna, Virginia, United States. It is part of the Fairfax County Public Schools district. According to ''Newsweek'' Magazine's 2014 list of the top US high schools, Madison was ranked 9 ...

Louisiana–Monroe Warhawks The Louisiana–Monroe Warhawks (ULM Warhawks) are the intercollegiate athletics teams representing the University of Louisiana at Monroe (ULM). ULM currently fields 15 varsity teams (six men's and nine women's) in 11 sports, and competes at the ...

, University of Louisiana at Monroe *

McMurry University McMurry University is a private Methodist university in Abilene, Texas. It was founded in 1923 and named after William Fletcher McMurry. The university offers forty-five majors in the fields of fine arts, humanities, social and natural science ...

* Mount Vernon–Enola High School, Arkansas *

North Chicago Community High School North Chicago Community High School, also known as North Chicago and NCCHS, is a public four-year high school located in North Chicago, Illinois, a northern suburb of Chicago, in the United States. It is part of North Chicago School District 187 ...

, Chicago, Illinois *North Mahaska Community High School, North Mahaska Community School District, New Sharon, Iowa * Seminole High School (Pinellas County, Florida) * Westerville Central High School, Ohio *

Wisconsin–Whitewater Warhawks The University of Wisconsin–Whitewater Warhawks (casually known as the UW–Whitewater Warhawks or Warhawks) are the athletic teams of the University of Wisconsin–Whitewater. Twenty Warhawk athletic teams compete in NCAA Division III. The Wa ...

, University of Wisconsin–Whitewater *

Veterans High School Veterans High School is a high school located in Kathleen, which is just south of Warner Robins, Georgia, United States. The school was opened on August 9, 2010, and cost about $61 million to build.http://www.macon.com/2009/12/30/967865/pondering ...

, Kathleen, Georgia

Video games

* ''Warhawk'' (1986 video game), a vertically scrolling video game, released by Firebird software * ''Warhawk'' (1995 video game), a Sony PlayStation game * ''Warhawk'' (2007 video game), a multiplayer-only PlayStation 3 remake of the PlayStation game

Other

* Warhawk (comics), a number of comic characters {{disambiguation