Barbary War may refer to:
- First Barbary War (1801–1805), fought between the United States and the Barbary States
- Second Barbary War (1815), fought between the United States and the Barbary states
- 2011 military intervention in Libya, fought between the United States and the Libyan government under Gaddafi, referred to as Third Barbary War
Famous quotes containing the word war:
“War is bestowed like electroshock on the depressive nation; thousands of volts jolting the system, an artificial galvanizing, one effect of which is loss of memory. War comes at the end of the twentieth century as absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to “feel good” about themselves, their country, is a measure of that failure.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)