the waging of armed conflict against an enemy | (Greek mythology) a great war fought between Greece and Troy; the Greeks sailed to Troy to recover Helen of Troy, the beautiful wife of Menelaus who had been abducted by Paris; after ten years the Greeks (via the Trojan Horse) achieved final victory and burned Troy to the ground |
a concerted campaign to end something that is injurious | |
an active struggle between competing entities | |
a legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration during which the international rules of war apply | |