Sometimes civil contests

• Military conflicts
• Jihads
• Much of history
• Campaigns against drugs and poverty
• Star ____
• Battles it out
• General activities?
• "Word ___" (2004 Scrabble documentary)
• I and II, e.g., but not yet III and IV

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The Wars series, also known as in Japan, Advance Wars in the West, and occasionally Nintendo Wars as a whole, is a series of military turn-based tactics video games , usually developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo . The series debuted ...