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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
• Warwickshire county in England, standard code

Music

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

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

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
• 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, part of the YRF Spy Universe
  • War 2, its upcoming sequel film

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
  • editor war

See also

Search for "war" on Wikipedia.

• All pages with titles containing wars
• All pages with titles containing war
• All pages with titles beginning with War
• The War (disambiguation)

• Civil War (disambiguation)
• Cold War (disambiguation)
• Great War (disambiguation)
• World War (disambiguation)