war

War is a large-scale, organized conflict between groups—typically nations or factions—characterized by sustained violence, strategic objectives, and significant political, social, and human consequences.

Aliases (38)

• armed conflict ×97
• civil war ×60
• series of wars ×29
• war of independence ×22
• colonial war ×20
• religious war ×14
• ancient war ×12
• revolt ×12
• conquest ×8
• armed insurrection ×6
• crusade ×6
• proxy war ×6
• revolutionary war ×6
• independence war ×4
• Indian War ×3
• armed rebellion ×3
• international armed conflict ×3
• Roman–barbarian conflict ×2
• anti-colonial war ×2
• home front ×2
• maroon war ×2
• sacred war ×2
• undeclared war ×2
• African war ×1
• Arab–Israeli war ×1
• South African war ×1
• Soviet–Japanese conflict ×1
• conflict in Ireland ×1
• decolonization war ×1
• interstate war ×1
• naval conflict ×1
• naval war ×1
• war in Africa ×1
• war in Japan ×1
• war in Lebanon ×1
• war of independence and ideology ×1
• war of the Arab Spring ×1
• war zone ×1

Instances (showing first 500 of 525)

• American Civil War
• Nine Years' War
• European wars of religion ("series of wars")
• Dekemvriana ("armed conflict")
• Second Italo-Ethiopian War
• War of the Quadruple Alliance
• Kronstadt rebellion ("armed conflict")
• Russo-Japanese War
• Tambov Rebellion ("armed rebellion")
• Middle East combat operations ("armed conflict")
• First Boer War
• Philippine–American War
• Italian Wars ("series of wars")
• Kosovo War ("armed conflict")
• Hualapai people ("armed conflict")
• Peloponnesian War
• Continuation War
• Spanish–American War
• War of the Austrian Succession
• Second Sacred War ("sacred war")
• Reconquista ("religious war")
• Third Sacred War ("sacred war")
• First Barons' War ("civil war")
• War of Devolution
• Black Hawk War
• Maccabean Revolt ("revolt")
• Irish War of Independence
• Irish Civil War ("civil war")
• Soviet–Afghan War
• Winnebago War
• Sauk people
• Balkan Wars
• Russian Civil War ("civil war")
• Polish–Soviet War
• First Crusade ("crusade")
• Finnish Civil War ("civil war")
• British home front during World War II ("home front")
• Greek War of Independence ("war of independence")
• Satsuma Rebellion ("civil war")
• King George's War
• French Revolutionary Wars
• Six-Day War
• Boer Wars
• Black September conflict ("armed conflict")
• Long Turkish War
• War of Jenkins' Ear
• Russo-Turkish Wars ("series of wars")
• Third English Civil War ("civil war")
• Russo-Ukrainian War ("armed conflict")
• Venezuelan War of Independence ("war of independence")
• Peasants’ War ("revolt")
• First Indochina War
• Great Northern War
• Tuscarora War
• Argentine War of Independence ("war of independence")
• Spanish conquest of Guatemala ("conquest")
• Syrian Civil War ("civil war")
• Chilean War of Independence ("war of independence")
• Eighty Years' War
• Gulf War
• Greek Civil War ("civil war")
• Peruvian War of Independence ("war of independence")
• Thirty Years' War ("religious war")
• Colombian War of Independence ("war of independence")
• Ecuadorian War of Independence ("war of independence")
• Texas Revolution ("armed conflict")
• Treaties of Velasco ("war of independence")
• Iran–Iraq War
• Dutch–Portuguese War
• Williamite War in Ireland
• Spanish Civil War ("civil war")
• Bolivian War of Independence ("war of independence")
• Indian Rebellion of 1857 ("war of independence")
• Franco-Spanish War (1635–1659)
• Yemen conflict (Saudi-led coalition) ("armed conflict")
• Tapani Incident ("armed conflict")
• Franco-Prussian War
• Hundred Years' War
• Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604)
• Opium Wars
• Pequot War
• Irish Rebellion of 1798 ("armed conflict")
• Lebanese Civil War ("civil war")
• Arab–Israeli War of 1948
• Cambodian–Vietnamese War
• Yamasee War
• War of Attrition
• Yom Kippur War
• World War I
• North Yemen Civil War ("civil war")
• Madiun Affair ("armed conflict")
• War of the Third Coalition
• Great Turkish War
• Second English Civil War ("civil war")
• Laotian Civil War ("civil war")
• War of the Fourth Coalition
• Cambodian Civil War ("civil war")
• Yugoslav Wars ("series of wars")
• Scanian War
• War of the Fifth Coalition
• Algerian War of Independence
• Tang County, Hebei, China
• Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire ("conquest")
• War of the Sixth Coalition
• War of the Seventh Coalition
• Coalition Wars ("series of wars")
• French conquest of Algeria ("colonial war")
• War of the Second Coalition
• 1982 Lebanon War
• Franco-Spanish War (1595–1598)
• 2006 Lebanon War ("armed conflict")
• War of the Three Henrys
• War of the Reunions
• The Troubles ("armed conflict")
• Wars of the Roses ("civil war")
• Second Intifada ("armed conflict")
• Third Silesian War
• English Civil War ("civil war")
• Anglo-Nepalese War
• Anti-British National Liberation War ("armed conflict")
• Borneo Confrontation ("undeclared war")
• Social War
• Gallic Wars
• Muslim conquest of Egypt ("conquest")
• Carlist Wars ("civil war")
• Rif War
• Sarawak Communist Insurgency ("armed conflict")
• Ifni War
• Byzantine–Ottoman wars
• Visigothic–Roman conflicts ("series of wars")
• Caesar’s civil war ("civil war")
• First Liberian Civil War ("civil war")
• Monmouth Rebellion ("armed conflict")
• Second Liberian Civil War ("civil war")
• Second Punic War
• Anglo-Dutch Wars ("series of wars")
• Vietnam War
• Iraq War ("armed conflict")
• Third Punic War
• Tuareg rebellions in Mali ("armed conflict")
• Tuareg rebellions in Niger ("armed conflict")
• Second Seminole War
• Kurdish–Turkish conflict ("armed conflict")
• Creek War of 1836
• Iraqi Kurdish rebellions ("armed conflict")
• War of the Bavarian Succession
• Caucasian War
• War of Liberation ("civil war")
• Iranian Kurdish conflict ("armed conflict")
• Central Plains War ("civil war")
• Jordanian–Palestinian conflict ("armed conflict")
• 5th War Zone of the National Revolutionary Army ("war zone")
• Dominican Civil War ("civil war")
• Chadian–Libyan conflict ("armed conflict")
• War of the First Coalition
• Reform War ("civil war")
• Indonesian National Revolution ("war of independence")
• Dresden uprising of 1849 ("armed insurrection")
• Kitos War ("armed conflict")
• King Philip's War
• War of 1812
• King William's War
• Constantinian civil war ("civil war")
• Third Fitna ("civil war")
• Napoleonic Wars ("series of wars")
• Crimean War
• Little War (Cuba) ("war of independence")
• Grito de Baire ("revolt")
• Kashmir conflict ("armed conflict")
• Maoist insurgency in India ("armed conflict")
• Second Anglo-Afghan War
• Bishops' Wars
• Winter War
• Roman–Germanic wars ("series of wars")
• Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945)
• Angolan Civil War ("civil war")
• Ten Years' War
• Roman–Parthian War of 161–166
• Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire ("conquest")
• British–Native American wars ("series of wars")
• Nicaraguan Revolution ("armed conflict")
• 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine ("revolt")
• Ethiopian Civil War ("civil war")
• Austro-Prussian War
• Philippine Revolution ("war of independence")
• Second Barons' War ("civil war")
• Italian Civil War ("civil war")
• First Seminole War
• Dakota War of 1862
• Polish–Muscovite War
• Colorado War ("armed conflict")
• Red Cloud's War ("armed conflict")
• Jacobite risings ("civil war")
• Great Sioux War of 1876
• French Wars of Religion ("series of wars")
• Nez Perce War
• Modoc War ("armed conflict")
• Wounded Knee Massacre ("armed conflict")
• War of the Castilian Succession
• Welsh Wars ("series of wars")
• First Anglo-Mysore War
• First War of Scottish Independence ("war of independence")
• Second War of Kappel
• War of the Spanish Succession
• Roman–Persian Wars ("series of wars")
• Pyrrhic War
• Second Anglo-Mysore War
• Third Anglo-Mysore War
• Fourth Anglo-Mysore War
• Cuban Revolution ("armed conflict")
• Anglo-Maratha Wars ("series of wars")
• Kieft's War
• Anglo-Sikh Wars
• Fraser Canyon War ("armed conflict")
• Little Turtle's War
• First Congo War
• War of the Sicilian Vespers
• Second Congo War
• Aragonese Crusade ("crusade")
• Anglo-Afghan Wars ("series of wars")
• Polish–Ukrainian War
• John Brown’s raid of 1859 ("armed insurrection")
• Polish–Lithuanian War
• Xhosa Wars ("series of wars")
• Franco-Dutch War
• Polish–Swedish wars ("series of wars")
• War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
• Niger Delta conflict ("armed conflict")
• Afghan Civil War ("civil war")
• Third Anglo-Burmese War
• Greco-Persian Wars
• Abkhaz–Georgian conflict ("armed conflict")
• Frontier Wars ("series of wars")
• Lwów Uprising (1944) ("armed insurrection")
• Schmalkaldic War
• Punic Wars ("series of wars")
• the Fifteen ("armed conflict")
• Cologne War ("religious war")
• Bella Marcomannica
• War of the Jülich Succession
• Spartacist uprising ("revolt")
• Boko Haram insurgency ("armed conflict")
• Jacobite rising of 1719 ("armed conflict")
• First Barbary War
• Second Schmalkaldic War
• Catalan Revolt ("revolt")
• Jacobite rising of 1745 ("civil war")
• Portuguese Restoration War
• First Italo-Ethiopian War
• Tripartite Aggression
• Sino-Indian War
• Italo-Turkish War
• Sino-Vietnamese War
• 2011 Libyan Civil War ("civil war")
• Sampson
• Quasi-War ("naval war")
• Queen Anne's War
• Carnatic Wars
• North-West Frontier campaigns ("colonial war")
• British colonial period in Jamaica ("maroon war")
• Sri Lankan Civil War ("civil war")
• Jewish–Roman wars
• Gothic War
• War of the Polish Succession
• Year of the Four Emperors ("civil war")
• Vandalic War in North Africa
• Second Carnatic War
• Beaver Wars
• First Macedonian War (as ally of Philip V of Macedon)
• Hualapai War
• Falklands War
• Irish Confederate Wars
• Dacian Wars
• The Anarchy (English civil war) ("civil war")
• First Anglo-Burmese War
• Second Anglo-Burmese War
• Huguenot rebellions ("civil war")
• Mexican–American War
• Portuguese Colonial War
• Second Silesian War
• 1911 Wuchang Uprising ("armed rebellion")
• Russo-Georgian War 2008
• Second Anglo-Maratha War
• Third Anglo-Maratha War
• Warsaw Uprising ("armed insurrection")
• Anglo-Scottish Wars ("series of wars")
• Soviet–Japanese War (1945) ("Soviet–Japanese conflict")
• Restoration War
• Cuban War of Independence ("war of independence")
• Korean War
• Marcomannic Wars
• Arab–Byzantine wars ("series of wars")
• Byzantine–Bulgarian wars ("series of wars")
• Asturian miners' strike of 1934 ("armed conflict")
• Second Boer War
• Second Crusade ("crusade")
• Third Crusade ("crusade")
• Albigensian Crusade ("crusade")
• Antonovshchina ("armed rebellion")
• Somali Civil War ("civil war")
• Khmelnytsky Uprising (1648–1657) ("war of independence")
• Boshin War ("civil war")
• United States–Native American wars ("series of wars")
• Second Libyan Civil War ("civil war")
• Hōgen Rebellion ("civil war")
• American Revolutionary War
• Dewey
• Liberal Wars in Portugal ("civil war")
• Seven Years' War ("colonial war")
• Bangladesh Liberation War
• Jacobite rising of 1715 ("civil war")
• Patriotic War of 1812
• New Fourth Army Incident ("armed conflict")
• First Sudanese Civil War ("civil war")
• British home front during World War I ("home front")
• Moro Rebellion ("armed conflict")
• Genpei War ("civil war")
• Iraq revolt of 1920 ("revolt")
• Khoikhoi–Dutch conflicts at the Cape ("colonial war")
• Second Sudanese Civil War ("civil war")
• Spanish conquest of Yucatán ("conquest")
• Polish–Russian War (1792)
• Mexican Revolution ("armed conflict")
• Tan War
• Easter Rising ("armed insurrection")
• Devolution War
• Mexican War of Independence ("war of independence")
• Darfur conflict ("armed conflict")
• Spanish conquest of New Granada ("conquest")
• Spanish conquest of Chile ("conquest")
• Aceh War
• Silesian Wars
• Eritrean War of Independence ("war of independence")
• First Chechen War
• War of the League of Cognac
• Fourth Crusade ("crusade")
• Second Chechen War
• Eritrean–Ethiopian War ("armed conflict")