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
• 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

Albums

• War (Bolt Thrower album)
• War (Born from Pain album)
• War (U2 album)
• War (War album), by the American band

Songs

• "War" (Bob Marley song)
• "War" (Bone Thugs-n-Harmony song)
• "War" (Edwin Starr song)
• "War?" (song), by System of a Down
• "War", by Burzum from Burzum
• "War", by Devin Townsend from Infinity
• "War", by Good Charlotte from Greatest Remixes
• "War", by Jay Sean from All or Nothing
• "War", by Joe Satriani from The Extremist
• "War", by Judas Priest from Nostradamus
• "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
• "Street Fighter (War)", by Sick Puppies from Tri-Polar; used in commercials for the game Street Fighter IV

Computers

• Write after read, a data hazard
• WAR (Sun file format) (Web application ARchive), a file format used to package Java applications
• KDE WAR (file format) (Web ARchive), a file format for storing a web page
• 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

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

Comics

• War (comics), the name of at least two Marvel Comics supervillains
• The War (comics), a 1989 Marvel Comics limited series set in that company's New Universe
• War (TMNT), a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles character

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 (film), a 2007 Jet Li and Jason Statham movie
• War, Inc., a 2008 American political satire film

Others

• 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
• A book by Sebastian Junger
• War – Opposing Viewpoints, a 2005 book, in the Opposing Viewpoints Series
• War, Literature & the Arts, an American military literary magazine
• Wins above replacement, a sabermetric baseball statistic

See also

• The War (disambiguation)